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Microstructural Analysis of Disordered and Ordered Mesoporous Silica Films

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

C. A. Drewien ,
Y. Lu ,
C. J. Brinker ,
R. Ganguli  and
M. T. Anderson
C. A. Drewien
Affiliation:
Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM87185-1405
Y. Lu
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico/NSF Center for Micro-Engineered Materials, The Advanced Materials Laboratory, 1001 University Blvd. SE, Albuquerque, NM87106
C. J. Brinker
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico/NSF Center for Micro-Engineered Materials, The Advanced Materials Laboratory, 1001 University Blvd. SE, Albuquerque, NM87106
R. Ganguli
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico/NSF Center for Micro-Engineered Materials, The Advanced Materials Laboratory, 1001 University Blvd. SE, Albuquerque, NM87106
M. T. Anderson
Affiliation:
now at 3M, Ceramic Technology Center, MS 201-4N-01, St. Paul, MN55144-100
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Processing can be controlled to produce a family of mesoporous silica films with either disordered, lamellar, hexagonal, or cubic pore distributions[l]. These films, formed by surfactant-templated synthesis and exhibiting a unimodal pore size, promise potential use as inorganic membranes, catalysts, and optically-based sensors[l,2]. The mesoporous films can be formed from initially homogeneous silica sols by a continuous, surfactant-templated process, which relies upon solvent evaporation during the sol-gel dip-coating process. Films of 100-500 nm thick are formed within seconds in a continuous coating operation. The microstructure of the films is dependent upon the cationic surfactant concentration CTAB (CH3(CH2)15N+(CH3)3Br-) and the dip-coating rate. Several films, processed under differing conditions, were investigated by TEM to characterize pore size, structure, and orientation.

Figures 1 a & b show the plan view and cross-sectional microstructure of a 2-d hexagonal mesoporous silica film deposited on silicon; the sample was calcined at 400 °C for 3 hours in air. The images were obtained on a Philips CM30 TEM, operated at 300 kV.

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Nanophase and Amorphous Materials
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 4 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis '98, Microscopy Society of America 56th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 32nd Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia July 12-16, 1998 , July 1998 , pp. 726 - 727
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