Porous Materials for Environmental Pollutant Adsorption and Degradation

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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