One-pot synthesis of yolk-shell materials with single, binary, ternary, quaternary, and quinary systems.

A facile, one-pot method of systematically synthesizing yolk-shell materials with complex compositions is proposed. The spray pyrolysis process for obtaining yolk-shell materials is advantageous because it is highly efficient, allows high throughput, comprises a single-step reaction, and is a continuous process that yields homogeneous composition and enables facile control of the mean size.