Methacrylyloxypropyl modified inorganic/organic hybrid mesoporous materials have been synthesized via an HCl catalyzed sol gel process in the presence of citric acid (CA) as a nonsurfactant template, which involves a combination of 3 (trimethoxysilyl)propyl methacrylate (MSMA) and tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) as precursor species.The CA nonsurfactant is removed by extraction with water, resulting in inorganic/organic hybrid mesoporous materials with high surface area (e.g. 900?m 2·g -1 ) and large pore volume (e.g. 0 55?cm 3·g -1 ).The surface area, pore volume and pore diameter increase slightly with increasing the content of CA.The products were characterized by XRD, N 2 adsorption desorption and FT IR.
An access to an increase in the information storage capacity is to reduce memory units to a nano-scale. There fore, we used carboxylized phenyl-capped polyaniline tetramer (PCAT) as the functional component and silica as the carrier to prepare PCAT/silica composite nano-particles (= 60 nm) with a structure of core-shell. The functionalized particles were two-dimensionally arrayed on substrates such as silicon, glass and ITO glass at pH 3.SEM and AFM results proved the arraying regularity of these particles under any given conditions, and the electrostatic force microscopy showed their response to +3 V bias applied.
