Since the pioneering work of Kresge and co-workers, [1,2] much effort has been devoted to surfactant-templated mesoporous materials that display topologies closely related to those observed for lyotropic liquid crystals. Enhanced longrange order introduced by using both charged surfactants and controlling polymerization of the inorganic precursors benefits the further identification and characterization of their periodic mesostructures. So far, various mesophases with three-dimensional (3D) symmetry, such as orthorhombic (Pmmm [3] etc.), tetragonal (P4 2 /mnm, [4] P4/mmm [3] ), hexagonal (P6 3 /mmc [5] ), micellar cubic (Pm 3n, [6,7] Fd 3m, [8,9] Im 3m, [7,10] Fm 3m, [11] Pm 3m, [10] etc.), bicontinuous cubic (Ia 3d, [1,2] Pn 3m [12] ), two-dimensional (2D) symmetry, such as rectangular (c2mm [13] ) and hexagonal (p6mm [1,2,14] ), and onedimensional (1D) symmetry, such as lamellar, [1,2] have been discovered as mesoporous crystals in different synthesis systems. Very recently, chiral mesoporous silica (CMS), with a uniform twisted rodlike morphology and hexagonally ordered chiral channels, was also obtained by using chiral, [15] achiral anionic, [16] and achiral cationic [17][18][19] surfactants as the structure-directing agent. However, the formation mechanism, especially the structural relationship between the chiral and other mesostructures, including 2D-hexagonal, 2D-rectangular and lamellar structures, is less well understood because of the complication of the organic-inorganic co-assembling process and lack of information, such as the "synthesis-space diagram". Additionally, the synthesis of mesoporous crystals with controlled mesostructures is of great importance for fundamental research and development of new catalysts, adsorbents, drug delivery hosts, and nanoreactors. Within the range of liquid-crystal phases in surfactantwater systems, an "intermediate phase" has been used to represent those noncubic phases occurring at compositions between hexagonal and lamellar phases. [20][21][22] Ribbon phases are the intermediate phases that exhibit rodlike surfactant aggregates (micelles) with noncircular cross sections, arranged on a 2D-rectangular lattice. [20][21][22] There have been several reports on the structure of the ribbon phases, mainly suggesting they have the primitive-rectangular (plane group p2gg) and centered-rectangular (plane group c2mm) symmetry. [21,23] However, it is hard to make their small structural difference clear: X-ray scattering techniques give us very limited information about the structures. Using direct observation techniques, such as high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), we have found that a systematic structural change from 2D-hexagonal chiral to 2D-rectangular p2gg to lamellar mesostructure can be controlled by precisely adjusting the basicity of the reaction mixture. HRTEM gave direct evidence for the new particular 2D-rectangular p2gg mesostructural constructions with peculiar packing of elliptical mesopores arranged on a 2D-hexagonal lattice. These have ...