Synthesis of mesocellular silica foams with tunable window and cell dimensions

WW Lukens, P Yang, GD Stucky - Chemistry of materials, 2001 - ACS Publications
Polystyrene microspheres coated with cationic surfactants are easily prepared by
microemulsion polymerization. These microspheres can be used in place of surfactants to …

Meso-cellular silica foams, macro-cellular silica foams and mesoporous solids: a study of emulsion-mediated synthesis

T Sen, GJT Tiddy, JL Casci, MW Anderson - Microporous and mesoporous …, 2005 - Elsevier
A simple room temperature synthesis of a series of porous silica materials from pure
mesoporous solid to meso-cellular foams to macro-cellular foams using an emulsion …

Hydrothermal restructuring of the cell and window sizes of silica foams

A Karkamkar, SS Kim, TJ Pinnavaia - Chemistry of materials, 2003 - ACS Publications
The cell and window diameters of silica foams can be easily increased by as much as 18 nm
through a simple postsynthesis hydrothermal treatment, indicating that the silica framework …

Emulsion-based synthesis of porous silica

H Gustafsson, K Holmberg - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2017 - Elsevier
We review the use of various types of emulsions as media for synthesis of porous silica
particles. The use of high internal phase emulsions, ie emulsions with a high ratio of …

Monolithic mesoporous silica templated by microemulsion liquid crystals

P Feng, X Bu, GD Stucky, DJ Pine - Journal of the American …, 2000 - ACS Publications
Despite success in the synthesis of mesoporous materials in various meso-and macroscopic
forms, 1-11 the simultaneous control of pore size and morphology in monolithic structures …

Microemulsion templating of siliceous mesostructured cellular foams with well-defined ultralarge mesopores

P Schmidt-Winkel, WW Lukens, P Yang… - Chemistry of …, 2000 - ACS Publications
Siliceous mesostructured cellular foams (MCFs) with well-defined ultralarge mesopores and
hydrothermally robust frameworks are described. The MCFs are templated by oil-in-water …

Interfacial synthesis of hollow microspheres of mesostructured silica

CE Fowler, D Khushalani, S Mann - Chemical Communications, 2001 - pubs.rsc.org
Interfacial synthesis of hollow microspheres of mesostructured silica - Chemical Communications
(RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/B104879C Royal Society of Chemistry View PDF …

Assembling colloidal silica into porous hollow microspheres

SB Kadali, N Soultanidis, MS Wong - Topics in Catalysis, 2008 - Springer
A non-surfactant-based synthesis approach to mesoporous hollow spheres through the use
of colloidal silica is presented. Based on nanoparticle assembly chemistry developed …

Preparation of hard mesoporous silica spheres

Q Huo, J Feng, F Schüth, GD Stucky - Chemistry of Materials, 1997 - ACS Publications
Large, hard, transparent, mesoporous silica spheres are synthesized in one step by using oil-
in-water emulsion chemistry under basic conditions with cationic surfactants and (n-BuO) …

Polystyrene bead-assisted self-assembly of microstructured silica hollow spheres in highly alkaline media

G Zhu, S Qiu, O Terasaki, Y Wei - Journal of the American …, 2001 - ACS Publications
The impetus to the active research on the preparation of silica with regular pores of the
diameter in the range of 1-2 nm, particularly 1-1.5 nm, emanates from their potential …