Issue 41, 2013
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RSC Advances

Continuous flow tuning of ordered mesoporous silica under ambient conditions†

Chee Ling Tong,‡a   Ramiz A. Boulos,‡a   Chengzhong Yu,‡b   K. Swaminathan Iyerc  and  Colin L. Raston‡*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Centre for NanoScale Science and Technology, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, Australia
E-mail: colin.raston@flinders.edu.au
Fax: +61 86488 8683
Tel: +61 86488 3045

b Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane Qld, Australia

c School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia

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.

Graphical abstract: Continuous flow tuning of ordered mesoporous silica under ambient conditions

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3RA42831A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
07 Jun 2013
Accepted
01 Aug 2013
First published
05 Aug 2013

RSC Adv., 2013,3, 18767-18770

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Continuous flow tuning of ordered mesoporous silica under ambient conditions

C. L. Tong, R. A. Boulos, C. Yu, K. S. Iyer and C. L. Raston, RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 18767 DOI: 10.1039/C3RA42831A

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