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Hierarchical porous silica materials with a trimodal pore system using surfactant templates
Daibin Kuang1, Torsten Brezesinski, Bernd Smarsly
1Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, D-14424 Potsdam, Germany.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|August 26, 2004
Abstract:
Porous silica exhibiting a hierarchically ordered trimodal pore system with a well-defined reverse opal microstructure and bimodal mesoporosity in the walls has been prepared by using polystyrene latex spheres, a novel block copolymer and an ionic liquid surfactant as templates. The resulting materials exhibit hierarchical order at three length scales (small mesopores: 2-3 nm; large mesopores: 11-12 nm; macropores: 360 nm).

