Novel Mesoporous Silica Materials with Hierarchically Ordered Nanochannel: Synthesis with the Assistance of Straight-Chain Alkanes and Application

Figure 8

A sequence of TEM images obtained in 3-dimensional tomography scans along the axis (a) perpendicular and (b) parallel to the long axis of a particle of the material prepared at a decane/P123 molar ratio of 310 and a TEOS/P123 molar ratio of 41.4. Reprinted with permission from [52]. Copyright (2012) Elsevier.

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