Current Updates on Porous Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Porous materials, containing voids or pores within its structure, play a significant role in various sectors, including catalysis, gas separation, energy storage, and the removal of pollutants from the environment. Based on their pore diameters, they can be widely divided into microporous (pore diameter <2 nm), mesoporous (pore diameter between 2 and 50 nm), and macroporous (pore diameter > 50 nm) materials. Common porous materials are metal organic frameworks (MOFs), covalent organic frameworks (COFs), zeolites, clays, and metal oxides, etc. The pore properties of these materials can be considerably altered by applying different synthesis approaches.

Over the last few decades, some interesting works have been reported on the design and application of porous materials in different sectors, including catalysis, energy storage, and sequestration of hazardous contaminants from aqueous environments. However, this research field still has a wide scope for the collection of interesting researches to discover various unresolved questions. This Special Issue (Current Updates of Porous Materials) aims to collect quality research works as well as critical review articles focusing on recent findings on “synthesis and application of Porous Materials’’. More specifically, the potential manuscripts can focus on ‘synthesis of porous materials (MOFs, COFS, zeolites, metal oxides, clays etc.) and their application in various fields (catalysis, energy storage, gas separation, and the treatment of contaminants from (simulated) wastewaters). All sounding works encompassing both the experimental and theoretical studies in these areas are highly welcomed.

Dr. Bhupendra Kumar Singh
Guest Editor

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