Facile synthesis of monodisperse hollow carbon nanospheres using sucrose by carbonization route

Hollow carbon nanospheres (HCNSs) supported on monodisperse iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) were synthesized by a carbonization route using sucrose as the carbon precursor. The resulting product of the obtained HCNSs possessed a narrow size distribution of 15 nm and an interlayer distance of 0.35 nm. The intensity of the D to G value was less than 1, which confirms the obtained HCNSs with graphitization. This study is expected to pave the way for the application of HCNS5 in nanoelectronics. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.