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Advances and Discoveries in Non-equilibrium Driven Nanomaterials and Thin Films: Poster Session
Sponsored by: TMS Functional Materials Division, TMS: Advanced Characterization, Testing, and Simulation Committee, TMS: Thin Films and Interfaces Committee
Program Organizers: Ritesh Sachan, Oklahoma State University; Amit Pandey, Lockheed Martin Space; Saurabh Puri, Microstructure Engineering; Amber Srivastava, Indian Institute of Technology; Nuggehalli Ravindra, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Monday 5:30 PM
February 28, 2022
Room: Exhibit Hall C
Location: Anaheim Convention Center

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H-6: Synthesis and Characterization of Mesoporous Copper Cobalt Oxide (CuCo2O4) Using Inverse Micelle Method: Sung Gue Heo¹; Kyoung-Tae Park²; Soong Ju Oh³; Seok-Jun Seo²; ¹Kitech/Korea University; ²Korea Institute of Industrial Technology; ³Korea University
    Metal oxides have attracted attention for electrode materials and supercapacitor application due to their chemical stability and electron-transfer kinetics. Because mesoporous metal oxides have high specific surface area and numerous active sites. The mesoporous transition metal oxides are generally synthesized by hard template method. However, hard template method requires complex process. Therefore, soft template inverse micelle method is now treated as great alternative to solve this problem for synthesis of mesoporous transition metal oxides such as MnO2, NiO. However, mesoporous CuCo2O4 with high specific surface using inverse micelle method is hard to synthesize due to relatively high stability constant of hydroxo complex compared to other transition metals. In this study, synthesis conditions were optimized to form ordered mesoporous CuCo2O4 structure by adjusting concentration of the precursor and heat treatment temperature of the reactants. Finally, more than 130m2/g of surface area of mesoporous CuCo2O4 were successfully synthesized by inverse micelle method.

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