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 liquid crystal templates for highly ordered three-dimensional mesoporous silica monoliths with controllable mesopore structures

SA El-Safty, T Hanaoka - Chemistry of materials, 2004 - ACS Publications
Nanostructure composite silica monoliths (HOM-n) with three-dimensional (3-D) structures
and controllable pore size were fabricated by using microemulsion lyotropic liquid crystal …

Synthesis of ordered mesoporous materials using surfactant liquid crystals or micellar solutions

AEC Palmqvist - Current opinion in colloid & interface science, 2003 - Elsevier
Formation of ordered mesoporous materials using surfactant templating proceeds via
mechanisms relying on optimising interactions between the inorganic and organic …

Control of pore sizes in mesoporous silica templated by liquid crystals in block copolymer− cosurfactant− water systems

P Feng, X Bu, DJ Pine - Langmuir, 2000 - ACS Publications
Colloidal silica has been polymerized in the aqueous domain of lyotropic liquid crystal
phases in ternary surfactant (Pluronic F127 or P123)− cosurfactant (butanol, pentanol, or …

Surfactant control of phases in the synthesis of mesoporous silica-based materials

Q Huo, DI Margolese, GD Stucky - Chemistry of Materials, 1996 - ACS Publications
The low-temperature formation of liquid-crystal-like arrays made up of molecular complexes
formed between molecular inorganic species and amphiphilic organic molecules is a …

Monolithic nanostructured silicate family templated by lyotropic liquid-crystalline nonionic surfactant mesophases

SA El-Safty, T Hanaoka - Chemistry of materials, 2003 - ACS Publications
A family of well-defined highly ordered mesoporous silica materials (designated as HOM)
was synthesized by using a high concentration of nonionic amphiphile of Brij 56 surfactant …

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 …

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 …

Microemulsion templates for mesoporous silica

P Schmidt-Winkel, CJ Glinka, GD Stucky - Langmuir, 2000 - ACS Publications
Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) studies indicate that oil-in-water microemulsions,
consisting of aqueous HCl, the nonionic block copolymer surfactant Pluronic P123 (poly …

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) …