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Surface Properties of Synthesized Nanoporous Carbon and Silica Matrices
Published on: March 27, 2019
Alkanes-assisted low temperature formation of highly ordered SBA-15 with large cylindrical mesopores
Junming Sun1, He Zhang, Ding Ma
1State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Highly ordered SBA-15 silicas with large cylindrical mesopores (approximately 15 nm) are successfully obtained with the help of NH4F by controlling the initial reaction temperatures in the presence of excess amounts of alkanes.
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