Electric-Field-Oriented Growth of Long Hair-Like Silica Microfibrils and Derived Functional Monolithic Solids

Electrical field-guided self-assembly is an effective approach in producing long (hair-like) ceramic microfibrils, which can be further used in consolidation fabrication of oriented structured ceramic monoliths with potential for capillary electrophoretic chromatography and other separations applications. This original work was recorded through a patent application to understand the fibril formation mechanism and its process.