Carbon nanospheres with highly monodispersed & conformal metal coating of carbon nanoparticles

Here is a very interesting paper on conformal coatings of various metal coated carbon nano particles not using ALD - so you should all be aware of this competition! The paper from Australian researchers has a Creative Commons open source and is given below. Thre paths for conformal coatings are reported and visualized in the the overview below.

A synthetic strategy for carbon nanospheres impregnated with highly monodispersed metal nanoparticles

Tianyu Yang, Huajuan Ling, Jean-Francois Lamonier, Mietek Jaroniec, Jun Huang et al.

NPG Asia Materials (2016) 8, e240; doi:10.1038/am.2015.145, licensed under under a Creative Commons CC-BY license

Schematic illustration of three general routes for the formation of various types of nanospheres using aminophenol–formaldehyde (APF) resin (Source: NPG Asia Materials (2016) 8, e240; doi:10.1038/am.2015.145, licensed under under a Creative Commons CC-BY license)