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A tricontinuous mesoporous system

Cooperative assembly between surfactants and inorganic species is a versatile synthetic route to materials with various nanostructures, and has now been extended to a structure composed of three continuous yet independent networks of mesoporous channels.

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Figure 1: Representation of the 3D channel structure of a tricontinuous mesoporous silica with hexagonal symmetry of P63/mcm.

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Ryoo, R. A tricontinuous mesoporous system. Nature Chem 1, 105–106 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.190

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