Periodic mesoporous organosilicas for advanced applications

By S. Park, M. S. Moorthy, Chang-Sik Ha. 2014

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In recent years, incorporating organic functionalities into inorganic materials has emerged as an efficient strategy for constructing a variety of functional materials. Periodic mesoporous organosilicas (PMOs) were one of the first such classes of composites to be developed. Grafting organic moieties within the channel walls of porous silicas — to act as bridges between neighboring silicon atoms — enables the tuning of their bulk properties, such as mechanical strength, or their surface characteristics — hydrophilicity, hydrophobicity or guest-binding abilities, for example. Chang-Sik Ha and colleagues from Pusan National University, South Korea, review how the wide range of morphologies and functionalities that have been prepared to date make PMOs desirable for numerous and varied practical applications. These hybrid materials have proven attractive for applications ranging from catalysis and drug delivery to the sorption of guest molecules and optoelectronics.

Subfields: Materials Chemistry

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