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Published on: April 1, 2013
Templated self-assembly of ordered mesoporous silica on clay nanotubes
Aleksandr Glotov1, Nikolay Levshakov, Anna Stavitskaya
1Department of Physical and Colloid Chemistry, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, 119991, Moscow, Russia. glotov.a@gubkin.ru.
Abstract:
A novel self-assembly strategy of ordered silica arrays on halloysite clay nanotubes allows us to obtain mesoporous MCM-41 materials with enhanced thermal and mechanical stability. The formation of a structured mesoporous silica phase on halloysite is based on the assembly of cationic amphiphilic molecules onto a negative nanotube surface. The resulting MCM-41/halloysite composite demonstrated thermal and mechanical stability up to 1100 °C and 500 MPa showing great potential for application of mesoporous materials as industrial catalyst carriers and adsorbents.
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