Porous silica spheres in macroporous structures and on nanofibres

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1927, 2010, Pages 4351-4370

  Ahmed, Adham ^a   Clowes, Rob ^a   Willneff, Elizabeth ^a   Myers, Peter ^a   Zhang, Haifei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emulsion templated porous polymers; Polymer nanofibres; Porous silica nanospheres; Stober synthesis

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CALCINATION; CATALYSIS; EMULSIFICATION; NANOFIBERS; NANOSPHERES; SCAFFOLDS; SILICA; SODIUM; SPHERES;

CLOSE PACKING; COMPOSITE FIBRES; CONTROLLED DELIVERY; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; HYBRID STRUCTURE; INORGANIC STRUCTURE; MACROPOROUS POLYMERS; MACROPOROUS STRUCTURES; MESOPOROUS SILICA SPHERES; NANO-MATERIALS; NANOFIBRES; POLYACRYLAMIDES; POLYMER NANOFIBRES; POLYMER SCAFFOLDS; POROUS POLYMERS; POROUS SILICA; SILICA NANOSPHERES; SODIUM CARBOXYMETHYL CELLULOSE; STOBER METHOD; STOBER SYNTHESIS; SUPPORTED CATALYSIS; TEMPLATED;

POLYMERS;

EID: 77958024833     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0136     Document Type: Conference Paper

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