Highly ordered mesoporous silica films with perpendicular mesochannels by a simple Stöber-solution growth approach.

This work was supported by the NSF of China (20890123), the State Key Basic Research Program of the PRC (2009AA033701 and 2009CB930400), the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (08DZ2270500), and the Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project (B108). Z.T. thanks the National Science Foundation for Post-doctoral Scientists of China (20100480030) and the Shanghai Postdoctoral Sustentation Fund (11R21411500) for financial support. We thank the Instrument Center of Central University in Taiwan for measuring the GISAX data.

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