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Macroporous Materials with Uniform Pores by Emulsion Templating

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

A. Imhof  and
D. J. Pine
A. Imhof
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106–5080.
D. J. Pine
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106–5080.
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Abstract

A method was developed for the production of macroporous oxide materials by using the droplets of a nonaqueous emulsion as the templates around which material is deposited through a sol-gel process. Moreover, uniform pores arranged in regular arrays can be obtained by starting with an emulsion of uniform droplets. These droplets first self-assemble into a colloidal crystal after which gelation of the suspending sol-gel mixture captures the ordered structure. After drying and calcination pellets are obtained which contain ordered arrays of spherical pores left behind by the emulsion droplets. The method can be used to make uniform pores in the range from 0.05–5 micrometers in many different materials. We demonstrate the process for titania, silica, and zirconia.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 497: Symposium Z – Recent Advances in Catalytic Materials , 1997 , 167
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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