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Formation of Fiber-Like Amorphous Silica Structures by Externally Applied Shear

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The structure of amorphous silica determines its properties and governs its applications. Here we report the synthesis of elongated silica chains/rods on the nanometer size scale formed by the orientation of a growing silica sol. We have utilized a cationically charged synthetic organic polymer as a catalyst/template and perturbed the system by externally applied shear. It is proposed that the polymer orientation plays an important role in the formation of such morphologies.

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45221-0012

    Siddharth V. Patwardhan, Niloy Mukherjee & Stephen J. Clarson

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Patwardhan, S.V., Mukherjee, N. & Clarson, S.J. Formation of Fiber-Like Amorphous Silica Structures by Externally Applied Shear. Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers 11, 117–121 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014403932692

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