Morphosynthesis of macrocellular mesoporous silicate foams

Abstract

Silicate macroskeletons which have both templated mesoporosity and open-cell macrovoid structures have been prepared in monolithic form at near ambient temperatures from continuous metastable foams of non-ionic alkylpolyethylene oxide surfactants under aqueous, neutral pH reaction conditions.

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