Continuous flow tuning of ordered mesoporous silica under ambient conditions

  • Chee Ling Tong
  • , Ramiz A. Boulos
  • , Chengzhong Yu
  • , K. Swaminathan Iyer
  • , Colin L. Raston*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Mesoporous silica SBA-15 is formed at room temperature, with significantly shortened pre-calcining reaction times, down to minutes under continuous flow conditions using a vortex fluidic device. This is associated with controllable pore size by varying the shear on the preformed micelles, from 2.8 nm to 3.8 nm, and a constant wall thickness at ∼5 nm.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)18767-18770
Number of pages4
JournalRSC Advances
Volume3
Issue number41
DOIs
StatePublished - 7 Nov 2013
Externally publishedYes

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