Facile synthesis of size controllable dendritic mesoporous silica nanoparticles

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 22655-22665

  Yu, Ye Jun ^a   Xing, Jun Ling ^a   Pang, Jun Ling ^a   Jiang, Shu Hua ^a   Lam, Koon Fung ^b   Yang, Tai Qun ^a   Xue, Qing Song ^a   Zhang, Kun ^a   Wu, Peng ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

alkyl imidazolium ionic liquids; colloidal mesoporous silica nanoparticles; growth inhibitor; size control

Indexed keywords

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IONIC LIQUIDS; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; NANOPARTICLES; NONIONIC SURFACTANTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICA; SILICA NANOPARTICLES; SODIUM BOROHYDRIDE;

CATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; GROWTH INHIBITOR; IMIDAZOLIUM IONIC LIQUIDS; LARGE SCALE SYNTHESIS; MESOPOROUS SILICA NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLE MATERIALS; NITROGEN PHYSISORPTION; SIZE CONTROL;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

IONIC LIQUID; NANOPARTICLE; POLOXAMER;

CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOPORE; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; PROCEDURES; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; IONIC LIQUIDS; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOPARTICLES; NANOPORES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLOXAMER; POROSITY;

EID: 84919914009     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am506653n     Document Type: Article

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