Application of Porous Functional Materials in CO₂ Capture and Utilization

Dear Colleagues,

Porous functional materials are attracting growing interest for carbon dioxide capture and utilization due to their high surface area, tunable pore structure, and versatile surface chemistry. This Special Issue aims to highlight recent advances in the design, synthesis, characterization, and application of porous materials for efficient and sustainable CO₂ separation, capture, regeneration, and conversion.

Contributions addressing adsorbents such as metal-organic frameworks, zeolites, activated carbons, porous polymers, functionalized silicas, hybrid materials, and waste-derived sorbents are particularly welcome. Studies dealing with structure-property relationships, adsorption thermodynamics and kinetics, selectivity, stability, cyclic performance, and regeneration strategies are encouraged, together with research on material shaping and scale-up.

The Special Issue also welcomes contributions focused on the process and engineering aspects of CO₂ capture and utilization, including reactor and contactor design (e.g., fixed-bed, fluidized-bed, moving bed systems, etc.), adsorption process configurations, cyclic operation (e.g., temperature- and pressure-swing processes), process intensification, modeling and simulation, and techno-economic or life-cycle assessment.

Particular attention is also given to approaches integrating CO₂ capture with subsequent utilization, including catalytic and photocatalytic conversion, mineralization, and other routes toward value-added products.

Experimental, computational, and review contributions that bridge material development and process engineering are invited, with the overall goal of advancing porous functional materials from fundamental understanding toward practical carbon-management application.

Dr. Federica Raganati
Guest Editor

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