Chiral Hybrid Mesoporous Silicas: Assembly of Uniform Hollow Nanospheres and Helical Nanotubes with Tunable Diameters
作者:Xiaowei Wu、Cathleen M. Crudden
DOI:10.1021/cm3012815
日期:2012.10.23
Uniform helical silica nanotubes and hollow silica nanostructures with adjustable diameters have been prepared through the self-assembly of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) as the surfactant, N-trimethoxysilylpropyl-N,N,N-trimethylammoniumchloride (TMAPS) as a costructure directing agent (CSDA), a binapthyl-based chiral dopant, and TEOS (Si(OEt)(4)) as the bulk silica constituent. Depending on the ratio of anionic surfactant to cationic costructure directing agent, the morphology can be tuned from hollow spheres to hollow nanotubes. At a 1:1 ratio of TMAPS/SDS, in the presence of the axially chiral dopant molecule, uniformly helical structures are obtained. The chirality of the dopant is shown to affect the sense of helicity. Under identical conditions, a monosilylated chiral dopant only leads to the formation of well dispersed uniform hollow spheres rather than helical nanotubes, which further demonstrates the importance of incorporating the chiral dopant as an integral component of the siloxane network, rather than merely as a surface group.
The Synthesis of Chiral Periodic Organosilica Materials with Ultrasmall Mesopores
作者:Xiaowei Wu、Thomas Blackburn、Jonathan D. Webb、Alfonso E. Garcia-Bennett、Cathleen M. Crudden
DOI:10.1002/anie.201101909
日期:2011.8.22
Helical organosilicamaterials were synthesized for the first time using a novel binaphthyl‐based chiral co‐monomer in less than 1 hour. The incorporation of a chiral co‐monomer in the wall was shown to influence the curvature of the helical materials. As the amount of the chiral co‐monomer was increased, the degree of curvature increased, illustrating the importance of this monomer to the overall