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Evaporation Induced Self-assembly

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Mesoporous Ordered Silica Films

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This chapter is dedicated to describing self-assembly during the deposition of a thin silica film. It is a very complex process that can be well controlled through an accurate design of the process parameters. The solvent’s evaporation in the precursor sol induces self-organization through the changes of the chemical-physical variables of the system. In reality, the whole self-assembly process is governed by the weak forces that regulate the micelle formation and the interactions between the surfactant and the silica building blocks. Evaporation, in this sense, is the phenomenon that favours the interactions at the supramolecular level. Self-assembly has been extensively studied and thoroughly described as a function of the process conditions.

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Innocenzi, P. (2022). Evaporation Induced Self-assembly. In: Mesoporous Ordered Silica Films. Advances in Sol-Gel Derived Materials and Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89536-5_4

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