Mesoporous silicas with different morphologies have attracted great interest in the fields of catalysis,separation and so on. In this study, silica hollow tubes with ordered mesopores were synthesized via a novel sol-...Mesoporous silicas with different morphologies have attracted great interest in the fields of catalysis,separation and so on. In this study, silica hollow tubes with ordered mesopores were synthesized via a novel sol-gel method with an ionic liquid 1-decyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride([Dmim]Cl) and a nonionic surfactant P123(PEO_(20)PPO_(70)PEO_(20)) as the co-template. Comparatively, silica hollow spheres with disordered mesopores were synthesized with only [Dmim]Cl as the template. The template dosage is the key factor in controlling the morphology. The micelles assembly mechanism based on hydrogen bonding interactions is proposed to be responsible for the formation of the final silica morphology and mesostructure.展开更多
A miniature fiber-optic Fabry-Perot interferometer (MOFPI) fabricated by splicing a hollow silica tube (HST) with inner diameter of 4 μm to the end of a single-mode fiber is investigated and experimentally demons...A miniature fiber-optic Fabry-Perot interferometer (MOFPI) fabricated by splicing a hollow silica tube (HST) with inner diameter of 4 μm to the end of a single-mode fiber is investigated and experimentally demonstrated. The theoretical relationship between the free spectrum range and the length of HST is verified by fabricating several MOFPIs with different lengths. We characterize the MOFPIs for temperature, liquid refractive index, and strain. Experimental results show that the sensitivities of the temperature, liquid refractive index, and strain are 16.42μm/℃, -118.56dB/RIU, and 1.21 pm/με, respectively.展开更多
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21206118, 21328601)
文摘Mesoporous silicas with different morphologies have attracted great interest in the fields of catalysis,separation and so on. In this study, silica hollow tubes with ordered mesopores were synthesized via a novel sol-gel method with an ionic liquid 1-decyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride([Dmim]Cl) and a nonionic surfactant P123(PEO_(20)PPO_(70)PEO_(20)) as the co-template. Comparatively, silica hollow spheres with disordered mesopores were synthesized with only [Dmim]Cl as the template. The template dosage is the key factor in controlling the morphology. The micelles assembly mechanism based on hydrogen bonding interactions is proposed to be responsible for the formation of the final silica morphology and mesostructure.
基金This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 81127901 and 51405454, and Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province under Grant 2015021087.
文摘A miniature fiber-optic Fabry-Perot interferometer (MOFPI) fabricated by splicing a hollow silica tube (HST) with inner diameter of 4 μm to the end of a single-mode fiber is investigated and experimentally demonstrated. The theoretical relationship between the free spectrum range and the length of HST is verified by fabricating several MOFPIs with different lengths. We characterize the MOFPIs for temperature, liquid refractive index, and strain. Experimental results show that the sensitivities of the temperature, liquid refractive index, and strain are 16.42μm/℃, -118.56dB/RIU, and 1.21 pm/με, respectively.