Using lipids (N‐acyl amino acids) and 3‐aminopropyltriethoxysilane as structure‐and co‐
structure‐directing agents, mesoporous silicas with four different morphologies, that is …

Fabrication of chiral materials and revealing the mechanisms involved in their formation are
crucial issues in scientific research. The combination of cooperative self-assembly routes …

Hierarchical silica nanotubes with radially oriented mesoporous channels perpendicular to
the central axis of the tube were synthesized by using self‐assembled chiral anionic …

Since the pioneering work of Kresge and co-workers,[1, 2] much effort has been devoted to
surfactant-templated mesoporous materials that display topologies closely related to those …

Highly regular vesicle-like silica consisting of concentric shells of silica and voids in
alternation have been prepared in a multilamellar vesicles (MLVs) template created with a …

Uniform helical silica nanotubes and hollow silica nanostructures with adjustable diameters
have been prepared through the self-assembly of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) as the …

Recently, the use of a chiral anionic surfactant derived from amino acid, N-myristoyl-l-
alanine sodium salt, has enabled us to obtain a chiral mesoporous silica. In this study, chiral …

The use of amphiphilic surfactants and polymers in the template-directed synthesis of
periodically ordered hybrid mesophases has produced a diverse range of new …

A series of achiral cationic and anionic amphiphiles employed as templates for mesoporous
silica, all showed an excellent ability to form highly ordered helical mesoporous silica (HMS) …

In nature, diatoms and sponges are exquisite examples of well‐defined structures produced
by silica biomineralisation, in which proteins play an important role. However, the artificial …