Chemistry Letters, Vol.33, No.5, 542-543, 2004
Highly ordered mesoporous Ni particles prepared by electroless deposition from lyotropic liquid crystals
Highly ordered mesoporous Ni particles have been prepared by electroless deposition using lyotropic liquid crystals as templates. The bath conditions, in particular the kind of the reducing agents, greatly affected the degree of the ordering of mesostructures. By using well chosen appropriate reducing agents and combining those agents, we have succeeded in synthesizing Ni particles with highly ordered mesoporosity.