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Preparation of Functional Silica Using a Bioinspired Method
Published on: August 1, 2018
Synthesis of highly stable pure-silica thin-walled hexagonally ordered mesoporous material
Pieter Verlooy1, Alexander Aerts, Oleg I Lebedev
1Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, Catholic University of Leuven, 3001, Heverlee, Belgium.
Abstract:
Hexagonally ordered mesoporous silica with a very narrow mesopore size distribution and exceptionally high stability paired with unusually thin pore walls was prepared using piperidine and cetyltrimethylammonium bromide.

