Recent Advances and Future Perspectives in Natural and Synthetic Porous Materials for Various Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Porous Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2025 | Viewed by 53
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Dear Colleagues,
The last decade has seen a number of significant breakthroughs in the design and processing of innovative porous materials due to their excellent properties (a high surface area and tunable pore size). According to their pore size, they are classified as microporous (<2nm), mesoporous (2-50 nm), or macroporous (>50 nm) materials. The tunability of order and functionality in porous structures is attractive and allows them to be tailored to demanding applications in the chemical, energy, environmental protection, medicine, and civil engineering industries.
This Special Issue, entitled "Recent Advances and Future Perspectives in Natural and Synthetic Porous Materials for Various Applications", aims to provide an update on recent advances in preparation and characterization approaches, property evaluation, and applications for natural and synthetic porous materials. Submissions to this Special Issue are welcome in the form of original research papers and reviews, and contributions are expected to cover fundamental and applied features, such as the design of high-performance materials, controlled fabrication methods, the correlation between pore structures and material properties, innovative approaches, and novel applications for natural and synthetic porous materials.
Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Microporous materials (including zeolites and related crystalline molecular sieves, pillared materials, clays, metal–organic frameworks, carbons, and porous polymers);
- Mesoporous materials (including glass ceramics, zeolites, xerogels, aerogels, glasses, metal oxides, pure metals, and porous polymers);
- Macroporous materials (including ceramics, glass ceramics, porous polymers, aerogels, and cement).
Dr. Oana Cadar
Dr. Beata Kaczmarek-Szczepańska
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- porous materials
- porous ceramics
- porous metals
- porous polymers
- metal–organic materials
- zeolites
- applications
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