The invention relates to a method for preparing a
mesoporous silica material by
hydroxyethyl cellulose serving as a template. The method particularly includes the steps: 1) adding
hydroxyethyl cellulose into water, heating, stirring and dissolving to obtain
hydroxyethyl cellulose water solution, slowly adding
alkali metal silicate water solution into the hydroxyethyl
cellulose water solution to uniformly mixing mixture, sufficiently stirring the mixture until clear and bright solution is acquired, adjusting a pH (potential of
hydrogen) of a
reaction system to reach 5-6 by acid solution, and standing for 1-24 hours to obtain reaction liquid; 2) centrifuging the reaction liquid,
drying and collecting to obtain a
solid matter, and calcining the
solid matter to obtain the
mesoporous silica material. According to the method, a non-ionic surface
active agent serves as a hydroxyethyl
cellulose template agent to assemble
mesoporous silica, unformed mesoporous silica material is synthesized byan unconventional
acid hydrolysis process, and the raw materials are rich, renewable and good in
biocompatibility, and the method is simple in synthetic process, mild and controllable in preparation condition and simple, efficient and nontoxic in preparation process.