Porous Organic Materials: Design and Applications: Volume II

Dear Colleagues,

Learning from nature to benefit humanity is the primary task of scientists. Porous structures are inherent to different-scale natural processes, from macroscopic honeycomb, which is the ”magnum opus” of honeybees, to nanopores which regulate ion/molecule transportation across the cell membrane. Inspired by fascinating molecular pores with unique biological functions in nature, artificial porous structures have attracted increasing research enthusiasm over the past several decades. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) defines a porous solid as “a solid with pores, i.e., cavities, channels, or interstices which are deeper than they are wide,” and states that these pores can be “open” or “closed”. By these definitions, porous organic materials including, but not limited to, hyper-cross-linked polymers (HCPs), polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs), conjugated microporous polymers (CMPs), covalent organic frameworks (COFs), covalent triazine frameworks (CTFs), porous aromatic frameworks (PAFs), extrinsic porous molecules, and porous organic cages have been well developed. Benefiting from the diverse compositions and tunable pore topologies, porous organic materials have been considered as potentially superior candidates for a wide variety of applications, such as adsorption and separation, filtration, catalysis, energy storage and conversion, mass transportation, drug delivery, etc.

This Special Issue aims to gather scientific papers on significant breakthroughs in the field of porous organic materials. We welcome papers discussing design strategies with an emphasis on topology, deep insight into chemical synthesis, structure–function correlation, state-of-the-art applications, or any other relevant issues. We expect that these joint endeavors will provide insightful guidelines for the advancement of porous organic materials.

Prof. Dr. Yan’an Gao
Prof. Dr. Qi Chen
Guest Editors

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• topology design
• synthesis
• structure—function correlation
• adsorption and separation
• catalysis
• energy storage and conversion
• mass transportation
• biological application

• Porous Organic Materials: Design and Applications in Molecules (14 articles)