Porous Materials for Environmental Pollutant Adsorption and Degradation
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2025 | Viewed by 39
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mesoporous materials; heteropoly acids; gas adsorption; CO2 capture; catalysts; heterogeneous catalysis
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Dear Colleagues,
Global warming due to the high concentration of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere leads to severe consequences such as climate change, severe meteorological phenomena events, and so on. Recently, CO2 capture using porous materials has been established as a very favorable path that has attracted a high degree of interest from scientists due to their advantages over the absorption approach. Highly efficient porous adsorption materials, including mesoporous silica, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), catalysts, porous organic polymers (POPs), zeolites, and activated carbon, have widespread applications in air pollution. A major focus of innovative research is to develop new technologies for synthesizing porous materials and evaluating their performance in removing various pollutants.
This Special Issue invites the submission of works related to porous materials and their application, focusing on issues that can help solve environmental problems.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome to be submitted. Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following: synthesis and fabrication of new porous materials, surface functionalization and modification of materials, CO2 adsorption mechanisms, performance and efficiency of CO2 capture, applications of porous materials in CO2 capture technologies, and adsorption and catalytic reaction mechanisms for different environmentally friendly reactions.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Alexandru Popa
Guest Editor
Dr. Orsina Verdeş
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- microporous and mesoporous materials
- adsorbents
- environmental applications
- physical and chemical characterizations of materials
- carbon capture and utilization (CCU)
- CO2 adsorption mechanisms
- adsorbent regeneration
- heterogeneous catalytic reactions
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