Preparation of Hard Mesoporous Silica Spheres
From Soft-Matter
(under construction)
Original entry: Ian Bruce Burgess Fall 2009
References
Q. Huo, J. Feng, F. Schuth, G.D. Stucky, Chemistry of Materials 9, 14-17 (1997).
Summary
This paper describes the synthesis of small spheres (0.1-2mm in diameter) made of a mesoporous silica from a surfactant-stabilized emulsion chemistry. What is remarkable about this technique is that the spheres, with hierarchical, levels of ordering on multiple length scales, are synthesized in a one step process. The spheres are synthesized as follows:
