One-pot hydrothermal synthesis of mesostructured silica nanotube

Lifeng Wang; Zhichao Shan; Zhe Zhang; Fei Wei; Feng-Shou Xiao

doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2009.03.091

One-pot hydrothermal synthesis of mesostructured silica nanotube

J Colloid Interface Sci. 2009 Jul 15;335(2):264-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2009.03.091. Epub 2009 Apr 10.

Authors

Lifeng Wang¹, Zhichao Shan, Zhe Zhang, Fei Wei, Feng-Shou Xiao

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry & College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China.

PMID: 19426990
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2009.03.091

Abstract

Mesostructured silica nanotubes have been synthesized in a system of carbon nanotubes/cetyltrimethylammonium bromide/tetraethyl orthosilicate/NH(3) x H(2)O through one-pot hydrothermal route. The obtained sample was characterized with X-ray diffraction, nitrogen sorption, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy and energy dispersive X-ray techniques. These results indicate mesostructured silica nanotubes exhibit small tube diameters (10-40 nm), uniform mesopores (2.5 nm), and a huge pore volume (1.7 cm(3)/g).