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Preparation of Functional Silica Using a Bioinspired Method
Published on: August 1, 2018
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Formation of nanostructured silicas through the fluoride catalysed self-polymerization of Q-type functional silica
Nai-Hsuan Hu1, Cory B Sims1, Tyler V Schrand1
1Department of Chemistry and Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA. furgalj@bgsu.edu.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|August 17, 2022
Abstract:
Octa(dimethylsiloxy)silica cages (Q8M8H) undergo rapid self-polymerization in the presence of a fluoride catalyst to form complex 3D porous structural network materials with specific surface areas up to 650 m2 g-1. This establishes a new method to form bio-derived high inorganic content soft silicas with potential applications in filtration, carbon capture, catalysis, or hydrogen source.
