Porous Materials and Their Adsorption Behaviors
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2024 | Viewed by 237
Special Issue Editors
Interests: metal-organic frameworks for gas adsorption, catalysis, and sensing; well-defined catalysts for organic synthesis; functional polymer synthesis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Porous materials are a class of functional–structural materials with multi-hole structures. Due to their great porosity, they are used in various applications, such as the recognition of guest analytes, catalysis, gas or solid adsorption, and chemical sensors, showing great potential in environmental remediation and energy generation. The variety of categories of porous materials include metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), covalent organic frameworks (COFs), porous ceramics, porous organic materials etc. Because of the porous sites, high thermal and kinetic stabilities, and optimal index of physical and mechanical properties, porous materials usually have great adsorption behaviors. In the past two decades, substantial efforts have been made in design, fabrication, and application of porous materials. However, there are still a lot of problems and challenges. For example, how can we maintain the specific accessibility of these pores? It is known that some porous adsorbents suddenly become highly accessible and lose selectivity for specific guest molecules above a threshold pressure or temperature. In addition, can the pore size in porous materials be tuned? If this is possible, what kind of techniques can be used? Furthermore, in specific porous materials, such as MOFs, what metal centre or special ligand could aid in their adsorption behaviors? To answer these questions and to develop better adsorbents or sensors, the present Special Issue on “Porous Materials and Their Adsorption Behaviors” could be represent a timely intervention compiling the recent progress and achievements in this field.
Dr. Peng Ren
Dr. Xuemei Yang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- porous materials
- adsorption
- synthesis of novel complexes/materials for adsorption
- metal-organic frameworks
- covalent organic frameworks
- chemical sensors
- X-ray diffraction
- optical properties
