title: Evaporation-induced Self-assembly Process Controlled for Obtaining Highly Ordered Mesoporous Materials with Demanded Morphologies.
abstract: A large number of periodic mesoporous materials have been reported using amphiphilic organic molecules with increasing development of synthetic methods for mesostructural, morphological, and compositional designs. The evaporation-induced self-assembly (ESIA) process to fabricate ordered mesoporous films is one of the most essential synthetic methods, which has extensively been applied for obtaining a wide variety of samples (e.g., films and monoliths, including powders). It contains complicated physical variations and chemical reactions, but has been simply explained by several research groups. However, a current, exact understanding of such complicated systems should be given with respect to all the variations and reactions. In this article, I have mainly surveyed the exact EISA process by considering the difference between simple and controlled EISA processes on the basis of my own experiments. I believe that the insights are consequently helpful for obtaining highly ordered mesoporous materials with demanded morphologies.
authors.affiliation: Inorganic Functional Materials Research Institute National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Shimoshidami Moriyama-ku, Nagoya, 463-8560, Japan.
authors.forename: Tatsuo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kimura
keywords: EISA; film; powder; self-assembly; surfactants