Templated growth of mesoporous aluminum phosphate tubules using protein molecules of tobacco

The experiment is based on the time dependent surface gelation phenomenon as exhibited by an aqueous solution of biomolecules that results in precipitation of self assembled inorganic particles exhibiting a high degree of sophistication in microstructural features. The present manuscript demonstrates and discusses the reproducible synthesis of the self-assembled highly oriented mesoporous tubules of AlPO(4) in tobacco liquor solution. This process has an inherent potential to be scaled up unlike the more common Langmuir-Blodgett monolayer formation. Nanosized AlPO(4) particles were in situ synthesized in the film of tobacco liquor solution (TLS) formed at the air-water interface.