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Self-assembly of boehmite nanopetals to form 3D high surface area nanoarchitectures

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A flower-like boehmite nanostructure was prepared through a template-free chemical route by the self-assembly process of nanosize petals 800–1000 nm long, 200–250 nm wide, 20–50 nm thick and having an average crystallite size of about 2.21 nm. X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), DTA/TGA analyses and Brunauer–Emmet–Teller (BET-N2) analyses were used in order to characterize the product obtained. XRD results exhibited that the obtained nanostructures composed of pure orthorhombic AlOOH phase. The effects of Cl− ions and TEA on the growth of boehmite three-dimensional nanoarchitectures in the presence of \(\mathrm{NO}_{3}^{-}\) ions were investigated. BET analyses of as-prepared material demonstrate that this nanostructure material has a high specific surface area, as high as 123 m2 g−1.

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  1. School of Engineering, University of Connecticut, 261 Glenbrook Rd., Storrs, CT, 06269, USA

    Saeid Zanganeh

  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, 911 Partners Way, Raleigh, NC, 27695-7907, USA

    Amir Kajbafvala

  3. Materials and Energy Research Center, P.O. Box 14155-4777, Tehran, Iran

    Saeid Zanganeh, Matin Sadat Mohajerani, Aidin Lak & S. K. Sadrnezhaad

  4. Chemical Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, P.O. Box 15875-4413, Tehran, Iran

    Navid Zanganeh

  5. Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 16845-161, Tehran, Iran

    M. R. Bayati & H. R. Zargar

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Zanganeh, S., Kajbafvala, A., Zanganeh, N. et al. Self-assembly of boehmite nanopetals to form 3D high surface area nanoarchitectures. Appl. Phys. A 99, 317–321 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-009-5534-2

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