ROOM-TEMPERATURE GROWTH OF MESOPOROUS SILICA FIBERS - A NEW HIGH-SURFACE-AREA OPTICAL WAVE-GUIDE

Authors
HUO QS ZHAO DY FENG JL WESTON K BURATTO SK STUCKY GD SCHACHT S SCHUTH F
Citation
Qs. Huo et al., ROOM-TEMPERATURE GROWTH OF MESOPOROUS SILICA FIBERS - A NEW HIGH-SURFACE-AREA OPTICAL WAVE-GUIDE, Advanced materials, 9(12), 1997, pp. 974
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Material Science
Journal title
Advanced materials → ACNP
ISSN journal
09359648
Volume
9
Issue
12
Year of publication
1997
Database
ISI
SICI code
0935-9648(1997)9:12<974:RGOMSF>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
High-quality, hexagonal phase, mesoporous silica fibers (see Figure) c an be grown by the general procedure for one-step, two-phase, room tem perature synthesis reported here. The silica fibers, which are 1-5 mu m in diameter and up to 5 cm long, have excellent long-range order, a narrow pore size distribution, and a pore volume of up to 0.78 cm(3)/g . The birefringent fibers can be used as high-surface-area optical fib ers.