Formation of Mesoporous Materials from Silica Dissolved in Various NaOH Concentrations: Effect of pH and Ionic Strength

Table 1

Summary of the synthesis conditions for the samples in Figure 5a.

Initial NaOH/SiO2	HCl/SiO2 after 24 h	pH after HCl addition
1	0.16	11.3
1	0.32	11
1	0.48	10.7
1	0.64	10.4
1	0.8	10

aSiO₂/H₂O = 1/400.