Mesoporous organic-inorganic hybrid materials built using polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane blocks

Abstract

(Figure Presented) Rounding up the POSSe: Polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS), one of the smallest hybrid nano building blocks, were weaved into multifunctional hierarchical mesoporous hybrid materials. The mesoporous organic-inorganic hybrid material was synthesized by co-assembly and condensation of the POSS compound around the block copolymer P123 micelles and subsequent release of the porogen (see scheme), resulting in a uniform pore size of 4.40 nm. © 2007 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.