Synthesis of porous silica by co-micelle emulsion templating technique using PEG/acrylamide and 2–(acryloyloxy)–N,N,N–trimethylethanaminium chloride/acrylamide as templates

Authors

  • Iman Abdullah Department of Chemistry, FMIPA, University of Indonesia
  • Widyastuti Samadi Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Indonesia
  • Arvinda Widyana Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Indonesia
  • David Chandra Pandapotan Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Indonesia
  • Ridla Bakri Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Indonesia

Keywords:

Porous silica, Co-MET, PEG, 2–(acryloyloxy)–N,N,N–trimethylethanaminium chloride

Abstract

Co-micelle emulsion templating (co-MET) technique is a new method to synthesize uniform and ordered porous silica from tetraethylortosilicate precursor using double polymer as templates. In this study, co-MET technique was conducted by varying template type (namely PEG/acrylamide and 2–(acryloyloxy)–N,N,N–trimethylethanaminium chloride/acrylamide) and percentage of polymer (2.5%, 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% for PEG and 0.5%, 1%, 2.5%, 5%, 10% for 2–(acryloyloxy)–N,N,N–trimethylethanaminium chloride). The resulting porous silica were then characterized by SEM-EDS, BET and XRD to investigates the pore character and structure of silica. Based on SEM-EDS and BET analysis, it is shown that the amount and the type of polymer gave a significant effect to the structure formation of the porous silica. Cationic polymer as templates gave higher surface area and uniform pore size than neutral polymer templates. Polymer concentration of 2.5% gave the best result for both template types, resulting an interconnected mesopore silica with surface area of 615 m2/g for PEG and 1137 m2/g for 2–(acryloyloxy)–N,N,N–trimethylethanaminium chloride.

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2014-12-24

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I. Abdullah, W. Samadi, A. Widyana, D. C. . Pandapotan, and R. Bakri, “Synthesis of porous silica by co-micelle emulsion templating technique using PEG/acrylamide and 2–(acryloyloxy)–N,N,N–trimethylethanaminium chloride/acrylamide as templates”, J Met Mater Miner, vol. 24, no. 2, Dec. 2014.

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Vol. 24 No. 2 (2014)

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