Facile Hydrothermal Fabrication of Nano-Oxide Hollow Spheres using Monosaccharides as Sacrificial Templates

Abstract

Sugar makes me hollow inside! This thesis presents a facile, environmentally benign, economically sustainable, and additive-free synthetic protocol for the fabrication of hollow oxides, which could ultimately enable the fine-tuning of hollow inorganic materials. The synthesis was achieved via a facile one-pot hydrothermal strategy with the use of simple sugars (glucose or fructose) as sacrificial templates.