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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 335, Issue 1, Pages 70-76Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2009.02.066
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Hybrid organic-inorganic mesostructured material; Mesoporous silica; Nonionic surfactant; Small-Angle X-ray Scattering; Transmission electron microscopy; Rectangular mesostructure; 2D-hexagonal mesostructure; Water-soluble silica precursor; Surfactant phase behavior
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We report oil the fabrication of hybrid organic-inorganic mesostructured materials from aqueous solutions of a series of poly(oxyethylene) cholesteryl ethers (ChEO(n), where n is the number of oxyethylene units) with a water-soluble silica precursor, tetra(2-hydroxyethyl) orthosilicate (THEOS) at a neutral pH condition. ChEO(10) and ChEO(15) form rectangular and 2D-hexagonal mesostructures, respectively, as detected by Small-Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) measurements. On the other hand, disordered structures (showing nevertheless a correlation length) are observed with longer hydrophilic chain surfactants, such as ChEO(20), ChEO(24) and ChEO(30). Highly ordered mesostructures cannot be obtained at neutral pH when THEOS is substituted with a conventional silica precursor, tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS). The structural evolution from initial disordered micellar solutions is dependent on both surfactant and THEOS concentrations. It is also found that the silica mesostructures obtained from ChEO(10) and ChEO(15) templates are the same as those of the liquid crystalline phases formed in aqueous mixtures of the corresponding surfactant. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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