Synthesis of SBA-1, SBA-3 and SBA-7 mesoporous materials. Study of the effect of time and temperature.

Abstract

In recent years, physicists, chemists and engineers have focused their research on the design of new functional materials. In the synthesis and control of materials in nanometer dimensions, the aim is currently directed towards the development of systems and devices that take advantage of chemical properties and physical principles, where their causes lie in the nanometer scale. Although there are numerous investigations about the synthesis of mesoporous materials from inorganic silicon salt, for example the synthesis of SBA-3. Ting et al [1] studied the synthesis of SBA-1; they obtained mesoporous SBA-1 with cubic structures, with a high porous system, by utilizing agents’ routers short chain structure such as the dodecyltrimethyl ammonium chloride. Recent research also showed that the formation of mesophases is affected by the presence of the counter ions and templates or surfactants can adopt a mesophase or other phases. So, Che et al. [2] found a phase shift 2D-hexagonal cubes from P6mm to Pm3n. We have published results for synthesis of SBA-3 with silica gel as silica source; we have found that the formation of mesophase is function of NaOH concentration in the dissolutions of silica gel. The influence of reaction temperature, time and NaOH concentration was investigated. During studies for the best synthesis conditions for synthesis of SBA-3, we also obtained SBA-1 and SBA-7 mesoporous materials.