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Cover Picture: High‐Surface‐Area Silica Nanospheres (KCC‐1) with a Fibrous Morphology (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 50/2010)
Author(s) -
Polshettiwar Vivek,
Cha Dongkyu,
Zhang Xixiang,
Basset Jean Marie
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201005443
Subject(s) - morphology (biology) , cover (algebra) , materials science , chemical engineering , porosity , nanotechnology , polymer science , polymer chemistry , composite material , geology , mechanical engineering , paleontology , engineering
The chemist's first choice for heterogeneous catalysts is often porous silica because of its high surface area. However, these surface areas are mostly due to the pores and are thus not always accessible. V. Polshettiwar, J. M. Basset, and co‐workers describe in their Communication on page 9652 ff. how they synthesized fibrous silica nanospheres with a high surface area. Such a fibrous morphology observed in these nanospheres has not been seen before in silica materials.