# Supplementary Material (ESI) for Chemical Communications
# This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2004
Towards Flexible Inorganic Mesomaterials: One-Pot Low Temperature Synthesis
of Mesoporous Nanocrystalline Titania
Sönke Haseloha, Sung Yeun Choia, Marc Mamaka, Neil Coombsa, Srebri Petrova, Naveen Choprab,
and Geoffrey A. Ozina*
Chemistry Department, University of Toronto, Canada;
E-mail: gozin@chem.utoronto.ca
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Fig. S1. IR spectra obtained from a thin film of mesoporous nanocrystalline titania before (a) and after (b)
UV extraction.
Typical bands from organic templates (P123) disappeared after UV irradiation.
Spectra
were obtained from pellets consisting of KBr and scraped meso-nc-TiO2 thin films.
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# Supplementary Material (ESI) for Chemical Communications
# This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2004
Fig. S2. SEM image of film surface obtained from meso-nc-TiO2 thin film deposited on PEN substrate
after template removal with UV irradiation.
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