%0 Journal Article
%T Versatile Bottom-Up Approach to Nanostructured Functional Materials for Optoelectronic Applications
%A Giorgio Macchi
%A Francesco Meinardi
%A Patrizia Valsesia
%A Riccardo Tubino
%J International Journal of Photoenergy
%D 2008
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/2008/784691
%X A versatile strategy to load ordered mesoporous silica-based materials with functional molecular building blocks in order to obtain host-guest systems exhibiting specific functions is described. Optical microscope examination of the obtained material confirms that the addition of a chromophoric moiety to the reaction mixture is not detrimental in achieving the desired macroscopic morphology of the silica particles. A micro-photoluminescence investigation of the obtained material gave strong evidence that both surfactant micelles and the porous oxide matrix preserve the spectral features of the included molecular species in a nonconventional chemical environment.
%U http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijp/2008/784691/