Facile Synthesis of Monodisperse Microspheres and Gigantic Hollow Shells of Mesoporous Silica in Mixed Water-Ethanol Solvents Huijuan Zhang, Jun Wu, Longping Zhou, Dayong Zhang, and Limin Qi* Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China. E-mail:
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Figure S1. XRD patterns of mesoporous silica: (a) monodisperse microspheres obtained at r = 0.63; (b) gigantic hollow shells obtained at r = 1.44. [CTAB] = 4.8 mM, x = 0.07.
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Figure S2. Nitrogen adsorption-desorption isotherms of bowl-like half shells of mesoporous silica obtained at x = 0.14. Inset shows the pore size distribution determined from the adsorption branch. [CTAB] = 4.8 mM, r = 0.95.
