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  Synthesis of porous silicas with metal-organic gel as soft template# 5 Luo Weijun, He Yin, Xiang Shenglin, Yao Peijuan, Huang Jing, Zhang Jianyong** (KLGHEI of Environment and Energy Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China.) Abstract: Porous silicas with micro- and mesoporosity have been synthesized from tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS) in the presence of metal-organic gel template. The gel is used as a soft 10 15 20 template for sol-gel transcription, which can be readily removed. The silicas consist of nanoparticles with ca. 10-20 nm diameter, which aggregate to form porous architectures. The silicas have high BET surface areas up to 700 m2 g-1. Key words: Silica; Aerogel; Supramolecular gel; Porous materials; Template 0 Introduction Template-directed synthesis of various porous materials has been widely accepted due to its advantages, e.g. easy fabrication, low cost, high-through-put and high degree of control [1-3]. In the synthesis, a cavity is created with morphologies related to those of the template. Supramolecular gels consist of three-dimensional networks through noncovalent forces which entrap a huge amount of solvent molecules. As one of their important applications, supramolecular gels have been used as templates to obtain fibrous morphologies such as tubes, fibers, rods, ribbons and helices [4-6]. A number of inorganic materials (silica, metal oxides) and organic-inorganic hybrid materials have been produced. For examples, tubular structures including silicas [7-14] and titanias [15-18] can be obtained using gel fibers as template. However, most of the materials obtained have 25 30 35 40 fibrous morphologies, because most commonly the gels consist of a network of nanofibers [19]. Recently, a novel group of metal-organic gels have been developed (e.g. Fe-BTC gel prepared from ferric nitrate and 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylic acid in ethanol), which consist of coherent, rigid spo