Introduction to porous materials

This book is the first of its kind to discuss the development and applications of porous materials since their early start in the 1950s until now, the end of 2018. It is intended for students interested in materials science at the Masters or undergraduate level, but it is also intended for Ph.D. students who start their research in the field of porous materials. Surprisingly, we noted that a comprehensive overview of the most important inorganic porous materials, combined with the necessary theory and characterization methods that can be used as a complete course or introduction to the field, does not exist. There are many books and monographs, but they tend to be either a collection of individual papers with less consistency, or they are high level monographs focusing on one type of material only. The chapters in this book are almost chronological, starting with nature’s materials, and then followed by the zeolites, silicas, aluminas, and carbons. After that, we discuss the materials of the twenty-first century; advanced carbons, PMOs (Periodic Mesoporous Organosilicas), MOFs (Metal-Organic Frameworks), and COFs (Covalent Organic Frameworks). We have included one “theoretical” chapter, providing the reader with a solid introduction to the models of adsorption, heterogeneous catalysis, and surface area and pore volume measurements. We believe that this chapter is necessary to be able to understand the rest of the book. We have made the choice to integrate other theoretical sections in the materials chapters at the point where we need these techniques first. So, solid state infrared spectroscopy is discussed in the silica chapter, XRD(X-Ray Diffraction) in the zeolite chapter, TEM (transmission electron microscopy) in the MOF chapter, and so on. The year 1999 was a magical one; in that year, many synthetic new classes of porous materials were reported, including the very famous MOFs and the PMOs. These materials are referred to as hybrid materials, as they contain both inorganic and organic functionalities. The book ends with the COFs. These are basically organic materials, but are often researched in inorganic groups, illustrating that the divisions “organic,” “inorganic,” and “analytical” become more and more obsolete in modern science. We hope you will enjoy this book and that you will learn a lot from it.We are open to any comments and suggestions you may have regarding the content of this book. Pascal Van Der Voort Karen Leus Els De Canck April 2019

ISBN:9781119426707

Jaar van publicatie:2019

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