A tri-continuous mesoporous material with a silica pore wall following a hexagonal minimal surface

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 123-127

  Han, Yu ^a,d   Zhang, Daliang ^b,c   Chng, Leng Leng ^a   Sun, Junliang ^b   Zhao, Lan ^a   Zou, Xiaodong ^b   Ying, Jackie Y ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL; SILICON DIOXIDE; SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; PH; POROSITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE;

HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; POROSITY; SILICON DIOXIDE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 67651181466     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.166     Document Type: Article

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