日本ゼオライト学会　刊行物 Publication of Japan Zeolite Association

The preparation of mesostructured materials from a cooperative organization of inorganic species and surfactants is a current topic mainly because of the possible use of the mesoporous materials derived from the mesostructured composites in molecular sieves, catalyses, and host-guest chemistry. It the periodic silica-surfactant nanocomposites can be obtained as films, the composite films might be applied to sensors, optical and electronic materials, etc. to which powder samples do not have an access. In this article, the studies on the novel and simple synthetic route to transparent thin films of the periodic silica-surfactant nanocomposite films by simply depositing homogeneous precursor solution containing surfactant and alkoxysilane are summarized.