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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 333, Issue 1, Pages 317-323Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2009.01.071
Keywords
SBA-16; CTAB; Refluxing; Stability; Au nanoparticles; Benzyl alcohol oxidation
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- AcRF tier 1 [RG45/06]
- AcRF tier 2 [ARC 13/07]
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We report a modified method to synthesize SBA-16 mesostructured Silica under refluxing condition using block co-polymer poly(ethylene oxide)-poly(propylene oxide)-poly(ethylene oxide) (F127) as template, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) as co-template, and tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) as silica source. The physiochemical properties of SBA-16 silica were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), nitrogen physisorption, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and Si-29 solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). The resulting SBA-16 silica exhibited highly ordered mesoporous structure, mono-dispersed spherical morphology, excellent hydrothermal, thermal and mechanical stabilities. It was worth mentioning that the synthesis time can be significantly reduced from 48 h to 8 h, which opened a feasible way to produce SBA-16 silica in a large scale. Moreover, the super-cage pore structure of SBA-16 encapsulated gold nanoparticles in a ship in a bottle way. The well-confined gold nanoparticles (mean size of 5 nm) with a narrow particle size distribution were highly active in solvent-free benzyl alcohol selective oxidation with molecular oxygen. (c) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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