Cooperative assembly between surfactants and inorganic species is a versatile synthetic route to materials with various nanostructures, and has now been extended to a structure composed of three continuous yet independent networks of mesoporous channels.
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Ryoo, R. A tricontinuous mesoporous system. Nature Chem 1, 105–106 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.190
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