Porous Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Porous materials are vital elements for a range of industrial applications, such as catalysis, separation, ion exchange, gas storage, adsorbents, thermal insulators, acoustic absorbents, molecular decontamination, biomaterials, etc. as they possess a number of special properties (mechanical and thermal stabilities, etc.) associated with their low density and exiting textural properties, such as a large specific surface area and pore volume, etc. This Topic Collection aims to focus on all kinds of porous materials and their applications in many fields. The Topic Collection will provide an excellent opportunity for expert researchers of porous materials to publish their recent work after peer review. Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to:

Methods for textural and structural characterization of porous materials;
Molecular simulation to predict new porous structure or new properties;
Shaping of porous materials (films, pellets, beads, extrudates, membranes, etc.);
Molecular decontamination (water and air treatments)：

- Gas storage;
- Ion-exchange;
- Molecular sieving (molecule separation, gas purification);

Catalytic applications;
Emerging applications:

- Energy storage;
- Sensors;
- Health (biomedical applications);
- Photovoltaic.

Dr. Irina Savina
Prof. Dr. T. Jean Daou
Guest Editors

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