Synthesis of mesoporous silica sba-15 through surfactant set-up and hydrothermal process

Abstract

The purpose of this study was synthesizing mesoporous silica SBA-15 and investigated the effect of the initial temperature of the preparation surfactant using the hydrothermal process to synthesize silica SBA-15. Pluronic (P123) as surfactant template and TEOS as material precursor acted as a building block of the mesoporous silica material. Therefore, the interaction surfactant template and precursor during the hydrothermal process guided to silica SBA-15 properties. The results suggested that the physicochemical properties of these materials did not change significantly, but different condition temperature of surfactant and hydrothermal process affected the size of the specific surface area, pore volume, and pore size distribution. The largest specific surface area was 560 m2g-1pore volume was 1.57 m3g-1and ordered pore size distribution around 11.24 nm after the initial temperature of the surfactant at 15oC and hydrothermal process at 100oC for 48 h. This resulted properties of SBA-15 are potentially applicable in various chemical and non-chemical based industries.