Materials Syntheses: A Practical Guide Book

Preface 1

List of Contributors 3

Controlling Size and Morphology of Zeolite L 9

Zeolite A and ZK-4 21

Mesostructured Silica Thin Films 29

Organically Modified Monolithic Silica Aerogels 39

Porous Silica Gel by Acid Leaching of Metakaolin 47

Zirconia-Pillared Clays 53

Montmorillonites with Mixed Aluminum-Lanthanide Oxide Pillars 59

Birnessite-type Manganese Oxide by Redox Precipitation 65

Templated Carbon from Pyrolysis of Pyrene in Pillared Clay Matrices 71

Fiberous Carbon from Sepiolite Clay and Propylene 77

Aerosol Spray Synthesis of Porous Molybdenum Sulfide Powder 83

Sonochemically Prepared Molybdenum Sulfide 89

Doped Manganites 95

Lithium Manganese Oxide Prepared by Flux Methods 103

Nanoscale Magnesium Oxide 111

Nanostructured Pt-doped Tin Oxide Films 117

Organically Functionalized Silica Nanoparticles 127

Copper Nanoparticles in Silica 135

Copper Nanocrystals 143

Assembly of TOPO-Capped Silver NanoparticIes to Multilayered Films 149

Colloidal Dispersion of Gold NanoparticIes 155

One-dimensional Nanorods and Nanowires 163

Monolithic Tin-doped Silica Glass 169

Octaphenyloctasilsesquioxane and Polyphenylsilsesquioxane for Nanocomposites 179

Polysilsesquicarbodiimide Xerogels 193

Polyaniline - A Conducting Polymer 199

Allyl- and Hydroxytelechelic Poly(isobutylenes) 209

Symmetrically and Unsymmetrically Substituted Phthalocyanines 217

Index 227