TiO2/Al-MCM-41 composites with various titania content were prepared by loading titania into the mesopores of Al-MCM-41 mesoporous molecular sieve from coal-measure kaolin as silicon and aluminum source via general sol-gel method and incipient wetness impregnation method. TiO2/Al-MCM-41 composites were characterized by XRD, FT-IR and SEM, and the photocatalytic degradation of methyl orange solu...

A Pd-based heterogeneous catalyst (Pd(II)-MCM-41) derived from post-synthesis modification of mesoporous silica, MCM-41, has been successfully employed in catalytic Stille and Sonogashira cross-coupling reactions. The catalyst affords good yields in all cross-coupling reactions. Notably, the catalyst is capable of activating less reactive chlorobenzene with moderate yield in both the coupling r...

We investigated the tracking potential of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) probe made of gadolinium-doped mesoporous silica MCM-41 (Gd(2)O(3)@MCM-41) nanoparticles for transplanted bone mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and neural stem cells (NSCs) in vivo. The nanoparticles, synthesized using a one-step synthetic method, possess hexagonal mesoporous structures with appropriate assembly of nanosc...

The effects of silica nanoparticles on the properties of a commonly used Sylgard 184 polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) in microfluidics were systemically studied. Two kinds of silica nanoparticles, A380 fumed silica nanoparticles and MCM-41 mesoporous silica nanoparticles, were individually doped into PDMS, and the properties of PDMS with these two different silica nanoparticles were separately teste...