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THE synthesis of inorganic mesoporous materials using ionic surfactant template molecules was first reported in 19921,2, and surfactant-mediated synthesis has since been used to form a variety of mesoporous materials3–8. Such materials could find application in catalysis, membrane and separation technology, and molecular engineering. Previous syntheses have used low surfactant concen-trations, and the templating mechanism (which is still controversial) is thought to be a cooperative process involving the interaction of inorganic ions with discrete surfactant aggregates1,2,5,9. Here we report the templating of silica mesostructures from ordered liquid-crystalline mesophases: the resulting silica phase, with pores of ∼3 nm diameter, is a cast of the organic mesophase. As the phase diagram of the surfactant/silica/water system at high surfactant concentration is similar to the (known) phase diagram of surfactant/water alone, this approach should introduce an element of predictability into the synthesis of mesoporous materials.
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Attard, G., Glyde, J. & Göltner, C. Liquid-crystalline phases as templates for the synthesis of mesoporous silica. Nature 378, 366–368 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/378366a0
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