STRUCTURE ORGANIZATION OF SILICATE POLYANIONS WITH SURFACTANTS - A NEW APPROACH TO THE SYNTHESES, STRUCTURE TRANSFORMATIONS, AND FORMATION MECHANISMS OF MESOSTRUCTURAL MATERIALS
Ca. Fyfe et Gy. Fu, STRUCTURE ORGANIZATION OF SILICATE POLYANIONS WITH SURFACTANTS - A NEW APPROACH TO THE SYNTHESES, STRUCTURE TRANSFORMATIONS, AND FORMATION MECHANISMS OF MESOSTRUCTURAL MATERIALS, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 117(38), 1995, pp. 9709-9714
Structure organization of the cubic silicate species, Si8O208-(Si-8),
by the cationic surfactant, CH3(CH2)(15)N(CH3)(3)(+), leads to mesopha
sic precipitates with layer or rod-based structures depending on the c
onditions of the precipitation. Further ordering of the structures of
these precipitates has been achieved by acidic vapor treatment leading
to ordered materials with cubic (MCM-48), lamellar, and hexagonal (MC
M-41) mesostructures. For the first time, step-by-step structural tran
sformations have been observed, which follow the-sequence given here,
during vapor phase treatment: layered precipitate (L(0)) --> cubic (V-
1) --> lamellar (L(1)) --> hexagonal (H-1). These results strongly sup
port a mechanism in which, under typical synthetic conditions, silicat
es and surfactants mutually organize into mesoscopic assemblies with g
eometries close to those of discs, rods,or spheres as determined by ch
arge density matching and then these assemblies further condense into
ordered lamellar, hexagonal, or cubic structures depending on the fina
l reaction conditions. The present results also demonstrate that it is
possible to achieve structure-tailoring and better framework ordering
of these mesostructural materials.