%0 Journal Article %T Surface and porous textural properties of silica–wollastonite composites prepared by sol–gel process %+ Universidad del Zulia (LUZ) %+ Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale (IMBE) %+ Faculté des sciences et Techniques de Tanger %+ Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C) %A Larreal de Hernandez, Lismarihen %A Anez-Borges, Liz %A Woignier, Thierry %A Alaoui, Adil %A Etienne-Calas, Sylvie %A Despetis, Florence %A Bonnet, Laurent %A Colaiocco, Bruno %A Tahir, Said %A Dieudonne-George, Philippe %< avec comité de lecture %Z L2C:19-290 %@ 0928-0707 %J Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology %I Springer Verlag %V 90 %N 1 %P 113–125 %8 2019-04 %D 2019 %R 10.1007/s10971-018-4874-9 %K Sol–gel materials %K Silica-wollastonite xerocomposite %K SAXS %K Gas adsorption-desorption %K Mineral carbonation %K Carbon dioxide sequestration %Z Chemical Sciences/Material chemistryJournal articles %X Silica–wollastonite xerogel composites (xerocomposites) with different wollastonite filler content were obtained after classical drying of silica–wollastonite gels. Two different silica precursors were used, TEOS and colloidal LUDOX, for composites named TW and LW, respectively. We utilized SAXS experiments, N2 adsorption–desorption, and SEM techniques to determine the textural and structural properties of these porous materials. For both the TW and LW composites, it was shown that a macroporosity and a mesoporosity coexist. We argue that the proportion of macroporosity directly depends on the proportion of wollastonite fillers in the composite. We propose a unique two-stage drying mechanism to explain the formation of macropores. We additionally found that the surface of wollastonite fillers was covered by a dense multilayer packing of silica colloids in LUDOX LW xerocomposites. We believe that these surface-modified wollastonite fillers could improve the carbonation kinetics of wollastonite when used as a precursor for aqueous mineral carbonation, a promising route for safe and durable carbon sequestration. %G English %2 https://hal.science/hal-02464294v2/document %2 https://hal.science/hal-02464294v2/file/hal-02464294_v2.pdf %L hal-02464294 %U https://hal.science/hal-02464294 %~ IRD %~ UNIV-AVIGNON %~ CNRS %~ UNIV-AMU %~ L2C %~ IMBE %~ OSU-INSTITUT-PYTHEAS %~ MIPS %~ UNIV-MONTPELLIER %~ UM-2015-2021 %~ TEST3-HALCNRS %~ TEST4-HALCNRS %~ TEST5-HALCNRS %~ INEE-CNRS