Synthesis of Monodisperse Hollow Silver Spheres Using Phase-Transformable Emulsions as Templates

Abstract

Monodisperse and size-tunable hollow silver spheres have been successfully synthesized with phase-transformable emulsions of natural beeswax as templates. Because beeswax is a hard and tough aggregate consisting of multiple small molecules and has a relatively low phase-transformable temperature, this method has the advantages of both hard-template and soft-template methods.