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Preparation of Functional Silica Using a Bioinspired Method
Published on: August 1, 2018
An efficient route to rapidly access silica materials with differently ordered mesostructures through counteranion
Changxu Lin1, Wei Zhu, Jian Li
1Key Lab of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, PR China.
Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|June 22, 2013
Abstract:
Control via exchange: By using a new type of imidazolium-based gemini surfactant as the template, highly ordered cubic mesoporous silica material (MCM-48) was directly synthesized in a broad range of reactant compositions and under mild conditions (see scheme). Moreover, by a simple counterion exchange strategy, hexagonal (MCM-41) and lamellar (MCM-50) mesoporous silicas are also easily and efficiently accessible.
Keywords:
counteranion exchangegemini surfactantsionic liquidsmesostructured materialssilica materials
