Mesoporous silica with monodispersed pores synthesized from the controlled self-assembly of silica nanoparticles

Min Su; Hongjiu Su; Baolei Du; Xiaotong Li; Gaoyuan Ren; Shudong Wang

Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol.32, No.5, 852-859, May, 2015

DOI10.1007/s11814-014-0270-5 Export Citation

Mesoporous silica with monodispersed pores synthesized from the controlled self-assembly of silica nanoparticles

Min Su^{1, 2}, Hongjiu Su^{1, †}, Baolei Du^{1, 2}, Xiaotong Li^{1, 2}, Gaoyuan Ren¹, and Shudong Wang^{1, †}

¹Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, Liaoning, China
²University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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Silica nanoparticles with different sizes (ranging from 10 nm to 104 nm) and size distributions were synthesized by semi-batch and semi-batch/batch methods of the Stober process. Then the amorphous silica with different surface areas (ranging from 30m2/g to 400m2/g) and pores (ranging from 3 nm to 33 nm) were obtained by various aging treatments and drying methods of the synthesized colloidal silica sol. The aging treatment resulted in the monodispersed pore distribution and decreased BET surface area of silica. The high-humidity drying method led to the mesoporous silica with uniform pores and decreased small pores. As the silica was obtained by the arrangement of silica nanoparticles, the pore diameter and pore distribution of mesoporous silica were directly related to the size and distribution of nanoparticles. Furthermore, this study offered a new thought for the synthesis of other mesoporous materials with uniform pore distributions.

Keywords:Mesoporous Silica;Silica Nanoparticles;Semi-batch/Batch;Semi-batch;Self-assembly

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[2] Morris CA, Anderson ML, Stroud RM, Merzbacher CI, Rolison DR, Science, 284(5414), 622 (1999)

[3] Smirnova I, Suttiruengwong S, Arlt W, J. Non-Cryst. Solids, 350, 54 (2004)

[4] Stober W, Fink A, Bohn E, J. Colloid Interface Sci., 26, 62 (1968)

[5] Huang Y, Pemberton JE, Colloids Surf., A, 377, 76 (2011)

[6] Lei ZB, Xiao Y, Dang LQ, Lu M, You WS, Micropor. Mesopor. Mater., 96, 127 (2006)

[7] Lindberg R, Sjoblom J, Sundholm G, Colloids Surf., A, 99, 79 (1995)

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[13] Kuroda Y, Yamauchi Y, Kuroda K, Chem. Commun., 46, 1827 (2010)

[14] Johnson SA, Ollivier PJ, Mallouk TE, Science, 283(5404), 963 (1999)

[15] Nozawa K, Gailhanou H, Raison L, Panizza P, Ushiki H, Sellier E, Delville JP, Delville MH, Langmuir, 21(4), 1516 (2005)

[16] Bogush GH, Zukoski CF, J. Colloid Interface Sci., 142, 1 (1991)

[17] LaMer VK, Dinegar RH, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 72, 4847 (1950)

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