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Preparation of Functional Silica Using a Bioinspired Method
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Synthesis and site-specific functionalization of tetravalent, hexavalent, and dodecavalent silica particles
Anthony Désert1, Céline Hubert, Zheng Fu
1CNRS, Univ. Bordeaux, ICMCB, UPR 9048, 33600 Pessac (France).
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|September 7, 2013
Abstract:
Different shapes: Tetravalent, hexavalent, and dodecavalent silica particles were obtained by the growth of the silica core of binary tetrapods, hexapods, and dodecapods, respectively. The surface of the multivalent particles can be regioselectively functionalized, thereby leading to particles with anisotropic geometry and chemistry.
