A hollow multilayered
alumina microsphere and its preparation method are disclosed, belonging to the field of
nanomaterials technology. This method uses anionic surfactants with
sulfonic acid or carboxyl groups as template agents,
aluminum salts as aluminum sources, and molecules containing carboxyl or phenolic hydroxyl groups as
metal ligands to slow the release of aluminum ions.
Amide precipitants are added to control the
aluminum ion hydrolysis rate, resulting in hollow multilayered microspheres. This method can also be used to synthesize
alumina microspheres with various structures such as onion-shaped concentric multilayers, hollow microspheres, multi-chambered microspheres, and radially cavitary microspheres. This method employs a kinetic approach combined with a soft template method to achieve controllable construction of the
microsphere structure, solving the problem of uncontrollable
microsphere morphology and structure due to excessively rapid aluminum source
hydrolysis during
alumina microsphere preparation. The synthesis process is simple and convenient, requires minimal equipment, uses inexpensive and readily available raw materials, and the resulting alumina microspheres have excellent application prospects.