（direct）Amino-functionalized SBA-15 type mesoporous silica having nanostructured hexagonal platelet morphology..pdfVIP

# Supplementary Material (ESI) for Chemical Communications # This journal is (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry 2006 Electronic Supplementary Information for: Amino-functionalized SBA-15 type mesoporous silica having nanostructured hexagonal platelet morphology a a a a b Sujandi, Sang-Eon Park,* Dae-Soo Han, Sang-Cheol Han, Myung-Jong Jin, and Tetsu Ohsunac a Laboratory of Nano-Green Catalysis, Nano Center for Fine Chemical Fusion Technology, Dep’t of Chemistry, Inha University, Incheon, 402-751, Korea. Fax: +82 32 867 5604; Tel: +82 32 860 7675; E-mail: separk@inha.ac.kr b Dep’t of Chemical Engineering, Inha University, Incheon, 402-751, Korea. c Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and Kagami Memorial Laboratory for Materials Science and Technology, Waseda University3 , Tokyo 169-8555, Japan Experimental Synthesis method For the direct synthesis of amino-functionalized SBA-15, a Pluronic P123 triblock copolymer (EO20PO70EO20, MW. 5800) was used as a structure-directing agent, a sodium metasilicate (Na SiO .9H O) was used as a silica source and a 3-aminopropyl 2 3 2 triethoxysilane/APTES (NH (CH ) Si(OEt) ) was used as an aminopropyl group source. 2 2 3 3 The preparation of the initial synthesis mixtures were carried out according to the following procedures, 16 g of 10% (w/w) aqueous solutions of P123 were poured into 26.6 g distilled water and then 0.016-x moles of sodium metasilicate were added to the reaction mixtures followed by x moles of APTES (x = 3, 5, 7.5, and 10 to obtain NH2 to SiO2 molar ratios = 3, 5, 7.5, and 10% respectively). The mixtures were vigorously stirred by using mechanical stirrers at room te