A simple extrusion method for the synthesis of aligned silica nanowires using the template of a rigid surfactant mesophase.
Long range alignment of silica nanowires has been accomplished by extrusion of a novel surfactant mesophase prior to silica synthesis.
Liu
Limin
L
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA.
Tan
Grace
G
Agarwal
Vivek
V
Bose
Arijit
A
He
Jibao
J
McPherson
Gary L
GL
John
Vijay T
VT