Sakamoto Shigeru, Shimojima Atsushi, Miyasaka Keiichi, Ruan Juanfang, Terasaki Osamu, Kuroda Kazuyuki
Department of Applied Chemistry, Waseda University, Ohkubo-3, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.
J Am Chem Soc. 2009 Jul 22;131(28):9634-5. doi: 10.1021/ja903176k.
We report the design of a new precursor having three branching disiloxane units capable of forming 3D mesostructures with a cubic Pm-3n and its orthorhombic and tetragonal variants Cmmm and P4(2)/mnm, in addition to a conventional 2D hexagonal (p6mm) mesostructure, thus creating a novel research area of mesostructural design in silica-organic nanohybrid materials.