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Preparation of Functional Silica Using a Bioinspired Method
Published on: August 1, 2018
One-step template-directed synthesis of multifunctionalised nanoporous silica: on the way to interactive
Eric Besson1, Ahmad Mehdi, Victor Matsura
1Laboratoire de Chimie Moléculaire et Organisation du Solide, UMR 5637 CNRS, Université de Montpellier II, Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, Place E. Bataillon, F-34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|March 26, 2005
Abstract:
The preparation of multifunctional mesoporous silica containing a NLO chromophore in the framework (bridged azobenzene phosphonium salts) and mercaptopropyl groups able to stabilize gold(0) nanoparticles in the channel pores was achieved in one step by using the direct liquid crystal templating approach.
