%0 Journal Article %T Self-Assembly of Bridged Silsesquioxanes: Modulating Structural Evolution via Cooperative Covalent and Non-covalent Interactions %+ Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C) %+ Synchrotron SOLEIL (SSOLEIL) %+ Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier - Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux de Montpellier (ICGM ICMMM) %+ Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering (USC) %A Creff, Gaëlle %A Pichon, Benoît P. %A Blanc, Christophe %A Maurin, David %A Sauvajol, Jean-Louis %A Carcel, Carole %A Moreau, Joël %A Roy, Pascale %A Bartlett, John R. %A Wong Chi Man, Michel %A Bantignies, Jean-Louis %< avec comité de lecture %Z L2C:13-103 %@ 0743-7463 %J Langmuir %I American Chemical Society %V 29 %P 5581 %8 2013-04-11 %D 2013 %R 10.1021/la400293k %K Bridged silsesquioxanes %K hydrogen bonding %K hydrolysis-condensation %K self-assembly %K sol-gel %Z Chemical Sciences/Material chemistryJournal articles %X The self-assembly of a bis-urea phenylene-bridged silsesquioxane precursor during sol-gel synthesis has been investigated by in situ infrared spectroscopy, optical microscopy and light scattering. In particular, the evolution of the system as a function of processing time was correlated with covalent interactions associated with increasing polycondensation and non-covalent interactions such as hydrogen bonding. A comprehensive mechanism based on the hydrolysis of the phenylene-bridged organosilane precursor prior to the crystallization of the corresponding bridged silsesquioxane via H bonding and subsequent irreversible polycondensation is proposed. %G English %L hal-00819327 %U https://hal.science/hal-00819327 %~ CNRS %~ UNIV-MONTP1 %~ UNIV-MONTP2 %~ ENSC-MONTPELLIER %~ ICG %~ L2C %~ INC-CNRS %~ SYNCHROTRON-SOLEIL %~ MIPS %~ CHIMIE %~ UNIV-MONTPELLIER %~ GS-PHYSIQUE %~ UM1-UM2 %~ UM-2015-2021