A bioinspired route to various siliceous vesicular structures

Yu, Meihua, Yuan, Pei, Zhang, Jun, Wang, Hongning, Zhang, Yang, Hu, Yifan, Wang, Yunhua and Yu, Chengzhong (2010) A bioinspired route to various siliceous vesicular structures. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 10 1: 612-615.

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Author Yu, Meihua
Yuan, Pei
Zhang, Jun
Wang, Hongning
Zhang, Yang
Hu, Yifan
Wang, Yunhua
Yu, Chengzhong
Title A bioinspired route to various siliceous vesicular structures
Journal name Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology  (ERA 2012 Listed)    (ERA 2010 Rank B)   Check publisher's open access policy
Publication date 2010-01-01
Sub-type Article
DOI 10.1166/jnn.2010.1731
Volume number 10
Issue number 1
ISSN 1533-4880; 1533-4899
Start page 612
End page 615
Total pages 4
Place of publication Valencia, CA, U.S.A.
Publisher American Scientific Publishers
Language eng
Formatted abstract Various siliceous nanostructures have been successfully synthesized through the co-organization of organic molecules and inorganic silica source under mild pH conditions (pH ∼ 5). A biodegradable block copolymer P123 [EO 20PO70EO20, EO is poly (ethylene oxide), PO is poly (propylene oxide)] is employed as a marcomolecular template and Na 2SiO3.9H2O as a silica source. By changing the concentrations of the reactants and/or reaction temperature, siliceous multilamellar vesicles, unilamellar nano-foams and multilamellar vesicles with sponge-like walls have been obtained. Our work provides a convenient and bioinspired route to obtain siliceous nanostructured materials with adjustable and multi-level pore structures as well as rich morphologies, which is important to understand the biomineralization mechanism. Such artificial silica nanoporous materials may find potential applications in catalysis, separations, electronics, and photonics, etc.
Keyword Biomineralization
Block copolymer
Self assembly
Silica
Vesicle
Q-Index Code C1
Q-Index Status Provisional Code
Institutional Status Non-UQ

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