title: An efficient route to rapidly access silica materials with differently ordered mesostructures through counteranion exchange.
abstract: Control via exchange: By using a new type of imidazolium-based gemini surfactant as the template, highly ordered cubic mesoporous silica material (MCM-48) was directly synthesized in a broad range of reactant compositions and under mild conditions (see scheme). Moreover, by a simple counterion exchange strategy, hexagonal (MCM-41) and lamellar (MCM-50) mesoporous silicas are also easily and efficiently accessible.
authors.affiliation: Key Lab of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, PR China.
authors.forename: Changxu
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Xiyang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Weina
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Haowei
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Guangtao
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Li
keywords: counteranion exchange; gemini surfactants; ionic liquids; mesostructured materials; silica materials