Control over morphol. and internal mesostructure of surfactant templated silicas remains a challenge, esp. when considering scaling lab. syntheses up to industrial vols. Here we report a method combining emulsification with the evapn.-induced self-assembly (EISA) method for prepg. spherical, mesoporous silica particles. This emulsion and solvent evapn. (ESE) method has several potential advantages over classic pptn. routes: it is easily scaled while providing superior control over stoichiometric homogeneity of templating surfactants and inorg. precursors, and particle sizes and distributions are detd. by principles developed for manipulating droplet sizes within water-in-oil emulsions. To demonstrate the method, triblock copolymer P104 is used as a templating amphiphile, generating unusually well-ordered 2D hexagonal (P6mm) mesoporous silica, while particle sizes and morphologies were controlled by varying the type of emulsifier and the method for emulsification. [on SciFinder(R)]