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Direct Access to Bicontinuous Skeletal Inorganic Plumber's Nightmare Networks from Block Copolymers†

  1. Anurag Jain1,
  2. Gilman E. S. Toombes2,
  3. Lisa M. Hall3,
  4. Surbhi Mahajan1,
  5. Carlos B. W. Garcia1,
  6. Wolfgang Probst4,
  7. Sol M. Gruner2,
  8. Ulrich Wiesner1

Article first published online: 17 JAN 2005

DOI: 10.1002/anie.200461156

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Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Volume 44, Issue 8, pages 1226–1229, February 11, 2005

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Jain, A., Toombes, G. E. S., Hall, L. M., Mahajan, S., Garcia, C. B. W., Probst, W., Gruner, S. M. and Wiesner, U. (2005), Direct Access to Bicontinuous Skeletal Inorganic Plumber's Nightmare Networks from Block Copolymers. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 44: 1226–1229. doi: 10.1002/anie.200461156

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Bard Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA, Fax: (+1) 607-255-2365

  2. 2

    Department of Physics, Clark Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

  3. 3

    Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN 47803, USA

  4. 4

    Consulting & Education in Microscopy, Digital Imaging and Analysis, Essingen, Germany

  1. †

    The financial support of the National Science Foundation (Grant DMR-0072009) is gratefully acknowledged. The work made use of the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR) electron microscopy facility, supported through the National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Program (DMR-0079992), and the work was further supported by DOE grant DEFG02-97ER62443.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 4 FEB 2005
  2. Article first published online: 17 JAN 2005
  3. Manuscript Revised: 11 NOV 2004
  4. Manuscript Received: 1 JUL 2004

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Keywords:

  • block copolymers;
  • ceramics;
  • self-assembly;
  • silicon;
  • zeolite analogues

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Pipe-dream realized: The as-made nanocomposite derived from a block-copolymer-directed sol–gel synthesis consists of silica networks embedded in an organic matrix. Calcination of the structure at high temperatures gives a final skeletal silica network consistent with the morphology called plumber's nightmare (point group Imequation imagem; see small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) pattern of an inverse form of this morphology).

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