Toward a sustainable preparation of tunable mesoporous silica

We report how we could circumvent two major drawbacks in the potential scale up synthesis of mesoporous silica via the surfactant-based templating route. First, burning the organic templates to free porosity is costly and not environmental friendly. Most of the mesoporous silica materials show also extremely poor resistance to hydrothermal environments. These drawbacks have certainly contributed to prevent these materials meet practical use, and...