Abstract
Summary Mesoporous transition metal oxides with crystalline walls show promising applications in catalysis and energy storage. Syntheses of those crystalline mesoporous oxides, however, currently remain as an unmet challenge because of the large volume shrinkage during crystallization in a sol-gel process. Here, we demonstrate a facile and general template-free method to prepare six mesoporous transition metal oxides, e.g., CuO, CoO, and spinel MCo2O4 (M = Co, Cu, Mn, Zn), with highly crystalline walls and continuous mesopores in the forms of two-dimensional nanoplates or nanosheets. The method is based on the thermal crystalline transformation from basic carbonates to mesoporous metal oxides. The crystal interconversion not only endows the crystallinity and mesoporosity of oxides but also generates abundant surface-step defects that show remarkable enhancement of the catalytic activity of porous oxides. Our method likely provides an alternative paradigm for cost-effective and universal synthesis of crystalline mesoporous oxides beyond the traditional templating methods.
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