Solvent-pair surfactants enabled assembly of clusters and copolymers towards programmed mesoporous metal oxides.

ABSTRACT: Organic-inorganic molecular assembly has led to numerous nano/mesostructured materials with fantastic properties, but it is dependent on and limited to the direct interaction between host organic structure-directing molecules and guest inorganic species. Here, we report a "solvent-pair surfactants" enabled assembly (SPEA) method to achieve a general synthesis of mesostructured materials requiring no direct host-guest interaction. Taking the synthesis of mesoporous metal oxides as an example, the dimethylformamide/water solvent pairs behave as surfactants and induce the formation of mesostructured polyoxometalates/copolymers nanocomposites, which can be converted into metal oxides. This SPEA method enables the synthesis of functional ordered mesoporous metal oxides with different pore sizes

SUBMITTER: Xie W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10739937 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature