Synthesis of Dual‐Mesoporous Silica Using Non‐Ionic Diblock Copolymer and Cationic Surfactant as Co‐Templates

It takes two: Ordered dual-mesoporous silica with two sets of well-configured pores can be synthesized by evaporation-induced step-by-step aggregating assembly in which the non-ionic block copolymer PEO-b-PMMA (red spheres) and the cationic surfactant alkyltrimethyl ammonium bromide (yellow rods) serve as co-templates in an acidic THF/H2O solution containing tetraethyl orthosilicate as the silica source (SiO2 oligomers shown as green balls in the picture). Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.