“…The possibility of incorporating organic rich functional groups in the mesostructure of inorganic silica to produce organic/inorganic hybrids has attracted the attention of several researchers for a wide variety of applications (Yano et al, 1998;Itagaki et al, 2003;Zhao et al, 1998;Nakane et al, 1999;Bandyopadhyay et al, 2005;Tamaki & Chujo, 1998;Posset et al, 2004;Jitianu et al, 2003;Peterlik et al, 2007). In a typical process, a chemically functional group is introduced by a 3-functional alkoxide, while the gel backbone is formed by siloxane bonds characteristic of the silica structure, which give mechanical stability for the functionalized material (Itagaki et al, 2003;Zhao et al, 1998;.…”