Yuanyuan Song, Zhili Zhang, Shengyou Tan
Aug 20, 2015
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Micro & Nano Letters
Abstract
A facile and flexible technique is described for the fabrication of silica/titania microcapsules from stable miniemulsion droplets. Bis (2,4-pentanedionato)-bis (2-propanolato) titanium (IV) (PDPT), tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) and γ–(trimethoxysilyl) propyl methacrylate and/are restricted in miniemulsion microreactor droplets via a miniemulsification process, are stabilised by cetyltrimethylammonium bromide and hexadecane. After the addition of triethylamine, silica/titania shells are formed in situ by the hydrolysis–condensation at the interfaces of miniemulsion droplets because of the dramatical decrease of the original TEOS and PDPT volume. The mesoporous silica/titania microcapsules are about 1 μm with average pore size of 5.2 nm and the Brunauer–Emmett–Teller surface area is 312.0 cm2/g. The biocompatible and mesoporous nature of microcapsules promises an ideal vehicle for catalyst and drug delivery.