Two-dimensional silica sieve plates mimicking the diatom valve

Jia-Yuan Shi; Qi-Zhi Yao; Gen-Tao Zhou; Sheng-Quan Fu

doi:10.1002/chem.201300722

Two-dimensional silica sieve plates mimicking the diatom valve

Chemistry. 2013 Jun 17;19(25):8073-7. doi: 10.1002/chem.201300722. Epub 2013 May 6.

Authors

Jia-Yuan Shi¹, Qi-Zhi Yao, Gen-Tao Zhou, Sheng-Quan Fu

Affiliation

¹ CAS Key Laboratory of Crust-Mantle Materials and Environments, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, PR China.

PMID: 23649731
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201300722

Abstract

Sieve and take: A biomimetic strategy was designed to fabricate two-dimensional silica sieve plates (SSP) by use of catanionic surfactants as composite template and L-tartrate with hydroxyl and carboxyl groups as regulator. Tartrate was found to combine two capabilities in the formation of SSP structures: the connection of adjacent silica structures through H bonding and the separation of adjacent structures through electrostatic repulsion.