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Inside Cover: Nanostructuring of Ionic Bridged Silsesquioxanes (Chem. Asian J. 9/2013)
Author(s) -
MongeMarcet Amàlia,
Cattoën Xavier,
Dieudonné Philippe,
Pleixats Roser,
Wong Chi Man Michel
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
chemistry – an asian journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.18
H-Index - 106
eISSN - 1861-471X
pISSN - 1861-4728
DOI - 10.1002/asia.201390030
Subject(s) - siloxane , scanning electron microscope , ionic bonding , cover (algebra) , materials science , fourier transform infrared spectroscopy , ionic liquid , bilayer , nanostructure , chemical engineering , polymer chemistry , nanotechnology , crystallography , chemistry , organic chemistry , ion , composite material , membrane , polymer , mechanical engineering , engineering , biochemistry , catalysis
Self‐Assembly Nanostructured ionic bridged silsesquioxanes were obtained by sol–gel processing from imidazolium‐based organosilanes bearing urea groups and alkylene side chains. In their Full Paper on page 2235 ff. , Michel Wong Chi Man et al. report the formation of bilayer nanostructures consisting alternately of planes of hydrophilic siloxane networks and hydrophobic organic layers, as revealed by powder X‐ray diffraction, FTIR spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscopy analyses. The picture on the Inside Cover shows the arrangement of the structures by referring to an alignment of badminton shuttlecocks.