Patent ID: 7132165

Claim:
A lamellar mesoporous inorganic oxide and silica composition, wherein the inorganic oxide is other than silica, wherein the composition was derived from a mesoporous silica composition without the inorganic oxide composition containing an electrically neutral amine surfactant, wherein the surfactant is of the formula: RNH(CH 2 ) y NHR 1 wherein y is 1 to 4, R is an alkyl moiety containing 10 to 20 carbon atoms and R 1 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, methyl, ethyl and (CH 2 ) m NH 2 wherein m is 1, 2, 3 or 4 in mesopores, which surfactant has been removed from the silica composition which silica composition without the inorganic oxide was then treated post-synthesis of the mesoporous silica composition with one or more of an inorganic oxide forming compound of an inorganic element and the surfactant and then the treated silica composition was heated to form the inorganic oxide over and on silica composition so that the inorganic oxide and silica composition is lamellar and mesoporous, wherein the inorganic element is selected from the group consisting of B, Al, Ga, Fe, Co, Mn, Cr, Ge, Ti, V, Ni, Sn, Sb, Zr, W, Mo, Ca, Cu, Pb, In, Nb, Sr, and Zn.