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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2012, Article ID 371289, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2012/371289 Research Article Control the Morphologies and the Pore Architectures of Mesoporous Silicas through a Dual-Templating Approach Hairui Wang, Hao Chen, Zhen Xu, Sibing Wang, Baozong Li, and Yi Li Key Laboratory of Organic Synthesis of Jiangsu Province, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China Correspondence should be addressed to Yi Li, liyi@ Received 11 October 2011; Accepted 12 November 2011 Academic Editor: Ugur Serincan Copyright © 2012 Hairui Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Mesoporous silica nanospheres were prepared using a chiral cationic low-molecular-weight amphiphile and organic solvents such as toluene, cyclohexane, and tetrachlorocarbon through a dual-templating approach. X-ray diffraction, nitrogen sorption, field emission scanning electron microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy techniques have been used to characterize the mesoporous silicas. The volume ratio of toluene to water plays an important role in controlling the morphologies and the pore architectures of the mesoporous silicas. It was also found that mesoporous silica nanoflakes can be prepared by adding tetrahydrofuran to the reaction mixtures. 1. Introduction The hollow structures find applications in chromatogra- phy, nanocatalysts, bimolecular encapsulation, gene deliv- It