Dongyuan Zhao, Peidong Yang, David I. Margolese and Galen D. Stucky
Continuous mesoporous silica thin films with three-dimensional (3-D) accessible pore structures (Pm3n, P63/mmc space groups) have been prepared by a dip-coating technique using cationic surfactants as the structure-directing agents in nonaqueous media under acidic conditions.