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Synthesis and structural evolution of hollow flower-type mesoporous silica microspheres

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Hollow flower-type mesoporous silica microspheres (designated as HFMSs) with tunable smaller pores and lager pores in the shell have been successfully synthesized via a structural difference-based selective etching treatment of solid silica core/mesoporous silica shell (sSiO2@mSiO2) microspheres. The structure of sSiO2@mSiO2 microspheres could evolve to rattle-type, hollow structure, flower-type structure, and peanut-type structure from core/shell structure just by varying the etching agent from Na2CO3 solution to ammonia solution and adjusting the concentration of etching agent, respectively. Transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and nitrogen adsorption–desorption analysis are applied to characterize the synthesized samples. The mechanism of such a structural evolution is explained in this work.

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We are grateful for the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 20804040, 20974102, 50955010, 51173170, 21101141, 51003098, 51202223), the financial support from the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in Universities (NCET), Open Fund of Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry (Shanxi Normal University) of Ministry of Education (201201), and National Undergraduate Innovative and Pioneering Training Program of Zhengzhou University (No. 121045910).

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    Shanshan Wang, Zhimin Chen, Hailian Zhang, Yuanlong Guo, Bo Wang, Linmei Li, Guo Tian, Xing Wei, Dandan Zhu, Yinghua Li, Hongxia Yang & Qun Xu

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Wang, S., Chen, Z., Zhang, H. et al. Synthesis and structural evolution of hollow flower-type mesoporous silica microspheres. J Mater Sci 48, 2268–2276 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-012-7004-z

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