Platinum, palladium, and silver nanotubes of 6-7-nm outer diameters are synthesized by the reduction of metal salts confined to lyotropic mixed-surfactant liquid crystals (see picture). The lyotropic liquid crystals act as a template and are formed by the 1:1 combination of medium and large surfactant molecules into a hexagonal array of cylindrical rodlike micelles.
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Kijima, T., Yoshimura, T., Uota, M., Ikeda, T., Fujikawa, D., Mouri, S., & Uoyama, S. (2003). Noble-Metal Nanotubes (Pt, Pd, Ag) from Lyotropic Mixed-Surfactant Liquid-Crystal Templates. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 43(2), 228–232. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.200352630
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