Control of the crystallization processes is one of the most important techniques in applied colloid chemistry. With a controlled preparation of crystallites of defined size, the kinetic aspects of solubility (e.g. of pharmaceuticals), crystal superstructures, texture-controlled flow properties, fill
Mesoporous Alumina Made from a Bicontinuous Liquid Crystalline Phase
✍ Scribed by Neil Cruise; Kjell Jansson; Krister Holmberg
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 110 KB
- Volume
- 241
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9797
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✦ Synopsis
A monoolein-based bicontinuous cubic phase was used as a template for the preparation of a mesoporous alumina. 1 H NMR was used to identify the cubic liquid crystalline region. Transmission electron microscopy images showed the crystallite sizes to be in the range of 3-10 nm and it is these crystallites which appear to be connected with each other in an amorphous matrix in between. The Brunauer-Emmett-Teller specific surface area of the material was 236 m 2 /g and had a pore volume of 0.188 cm 3 g -1 . The material was mainly mesoporous, having an average pore diameter of 38 Å.
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