According to the present invention, an organized assembly of functional molecules with specific interfacial functionality (functional group(s)) is attached to available surfaces including within mesopores of a mesoporous material. The method of the present invention avoids the standard base soak that would digest the walls between the mesopores by boiling the mesoporous material in water for surface preparation then removing all but one or two layers of water molecules on the internal surface of a pore. Suitable functional molecule precursor is then applied to permeate the hydrated pores and the precursor then undergoes condensation to form the functional molecules on the interior surface(s) of the pore(s).
Feng, Xiangdong, et al. "Surface functionalized mesoporous material and method of making same." US US 6326326, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Dec. 2001.
Feng, Xiangdong, Liu, Jun, and Fryxell, Glen E, "Surface functionalized mesoporous material and method of making same," US US 6326326, issued December 3, 2001.
@misc{osti_874147,
author = {Feng, Xiangdong and Liu, Jun and Fryxell, Glen E},
title = {Surface functionalized mesoporous material and method of making same},
annote = {According to the present invention, an organized assembly of functional molecules with specific interfacial functionality (functional group(s)) is attached to available surfaces including within mesopores of a mesoporous material. The method of the present invention avoids the standard base soak that would digest the walls between the mesopores by boiling the mesoporous material in water for surface preparation then removing all but one or two layers of water molecules on the internal surface of a pore. Suitable functional molecule precursor is then applied to permeate the hydrated pores and the precursor then undergoes condensation to form the functional molecules on the interior surface(s) of the pore(s).},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/874147},
place = {United States},
year = {2001},
month = {12},
note = {US Patent
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