Evaporation-Controlled Self-Assembly of Silica Surfactant Mesophases

A. Gibaud,*,† D. Grosso,‡ B. Smarsly,§ A. Baptiste,† J. F. Bardeau,† F. Babonneau,‡ D. A. Doshi,§,⊥ Z. Chen,§ C. Jeffrey Brinker,§,| and C. Sanchez‡ Laboratoire de Physique de l’Etat Condensé, UniVersité du Maine, UMR 6087 CNRS, 72085 Le Mans Cedex 09 France, Laboratoire Chimie de la Matière Condensée, UniVersité Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 place Jussieu, 75 252, Paris Cedex 05, France, Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering and Center for Micro-Engineered Materials, AdVanced Materials Laboratory, UniVersity of New Mexico, 1001 UniVersity BouleVard SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106, and Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185