What is it about?
Mesoporous silicas have found excellent potential application for use as reinforcing agents for several engineering polymer systems. While a large number of different synthesis approaches for the preparation of mesoporous silica-polymer nanocomposites has been reported in literature, there is nevertheless a growing need for verified synthesis methods of mesoporous silica-polymer materials. This paper presents a review of the literature on the methods for synthesizing polymer-mesoporous silica nanocomposites and discusses some unique properties of these composites.
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Why is it important?
Tthe introduction of a novel porous material, mesoporous molecular sieve (MMS) i.e. mesoporous silica, as reinforcement for polymer composites has generated a great deal of interests because of its potential to solve the problems of both aggregation and interfacial interaction.
Perspectives
Ordered mesoporous materials present periodic and size-controllable pore channels (2–10 nm) and high surface areas. Due to those properties, they are prominent materials for being applied in conventional uses such as catalysis and material adsorption and advanced applications including photoelectronic devices and fuel/solar cell applications. The field is open for further additions as new materials will be added.
Saeed Salimian
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This page is a summary of: A review on new mesostructured composite materials: Part I. synthesis of polymer-mesoporous silica nanocomposite, Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, January 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0731684417752081.
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