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Nanostructured Silica-Based Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials-Evidence for Self-Organization of a Xerogel Prepared
1Laboratoire de Chimie Moléculaire et Organisation du Solide, UMR 5637, Université Montpellier II, Place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5 (France).
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|November 11, 1999
Abstract:
A hydrolytic polycondensation reaction of a rigid, rodlike nonmesomorphous precursor leads to an isotropic sol and then an anisotropic birefringent xerogel (see scheme). Optical and X-ray structural analyses demonstrate a short-range order and the possibility of a crystalline order.
