Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Study on the Synthesis and Mechanism of Mesoporous Silica with Hexastyle Structure

WANG Lian-Zhou, SHI Jian-Lin, YU Jian, RUAN Mei-Ling, YAN Dong-Sheng   

  1. State Key Lab of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure; Shanghai Institute of Ceramics; Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai 200050 China
  • Received:1998-08-20 Revised:1998-09-14 Published:1999-08-20 Online:1999-08-20

Abstract: The mesoporous silica MCM--41 materials with hexastyle structure were synthesized under strongly acidic condition.
The characteristics of samples were investigated by using XRD, N2 adsorption, HREM, and SEM techniques. The results show
that MCM-41 powder with hexastyle structure, which is wormlike in micrometer-scale, consists of thousands of mesoporous channels in
nano-scale. The morphogenesis of hexastyle mesoporous silica is due to the accretion of surfactant micella combined with silica oligmers
in the low concentration of TEOS.

Key words: mesoporous silica MCM--41, hexastyle, morphogenesis

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