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Preparation of Functional Silica Using a Bioinspired Method
Published on: August 1, 2018
One pot synthesis of functionalized SBA-15 by using an 8-hydroxyquinoline-5-sulfonamide-modified organosilane as
Alireza Badiei1, Hassan Goldooz, Ghodsi Mohammadi Ziarani
1School of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. abadiei@khayam.ut.ac.ir
Abstract:
A novel functionalized SBA-15 mesoporous material was prepared through co-condensation of tetraethylorthosilicate with an 8-hydroxyquinoline-5-sulfonamide-modified organosilane precursor in the presence of P123 as structure-directing agent. After removal of template, the obtained material was characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), nitrogen adsorption-desorption, Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR), thermal analysis (TGA-DTA), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and elemental analysis. Then, aluminum quinolate complex was attached covalently to this functionalized SBA-15 by using coordinating ability of grafted 8-HQ and its emission spectra showed a slightly blue shift in comparison with AlQ(3) complex.

