%0 Journal Article %T An innovative series of layered nanostructured aminoalkylsilica hybrid material %A Trindade %A Carolina M. da %A Stoll %A Gabriela C. %A Pereira %A Altair S. %A Costa %A Tania M. H. %A Benvenutti %A Edilson V. %J Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society %D 2009 %I Sociedade Brasileira de Qu¨Şmica, SBQ %R 10.1590/S0103-50532009000400017 %X an innovative series of silica-based hybrid materials containing pendant cationic ammoniumpropyl groups was obtained using the sol-gel method, by varying the molar ratio of the inorganic and organic precursors. thermogravimetric analysis showed that samples were thermally stable up to 260 oc. results obtained by x-ray diffractometry, transmission electron microscopy, 29si nuclear magnetic resonance and elemental analysis were compatible with a silsesquioxane layered structural model showing basal distances up to 5.4 nm, containing amorphous silica in the interlayer space. %K nanostructured materials %K layered hybrid materials %K silsesquioxanes. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-50532009000400017&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en