A combination of hard and soft templating for the fabrication of silica hollow microcoils with nanostructured walls

作者:Rodriguez Abreu Carlos*; Vilanova Neus; Solans Conxita; Ujihara Masaki; Imae Toyoko; Lopez Quintela Arturo; Motojima Seiji
来源:Nanoscale Research Letters, 2011, 6: 330.
DOI:10.1186/1556-276X-6-330

摘要

Hollow silica microcoils have been prepared by using functionalized carbon microcoils as hard templates and surfactant or amphiphilic dye aggregates as soft templates. The obtained materials have been characterized by electron and optical microscopy, nitrogen sorption and small angle X-ray scattering. The obtained hollow microcoils resemble the original hard templates in shape and size. Moreover, they have mesoporous walls (pore size approximate to 3 nm) with some domains where pores are ordered in a hexagonal array, originated from surfactant micelles. The obtained silica microcoils also show preferential adsorption of cationic fluorescent dyes. A mechanism for the formation of silica microcoils is proposed.

  • 出版日期2011-4-13

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