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Journal of Nanomaterials
Volume 2014, Article ID 275796, 2 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/275796
Editorial
Advanced Nanoporous Materials: Synthesis,
Properties, and Applications
Copyright © 2014 Sayan Bhattacharyya et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution
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Nanoporous materials are well known to be technologi- approaches, structure-dependent properties and potential
cally useful for a wide spectrum of applications such as applications in various disciplines of science and engineering
energy storage and conversion in fuel cells, solar cells, Li- are necessary and urgent.
ion batteries, hydrogen storage and supercapacitors, catalysis, This special issue focuses on the recent advances in
sorption applications, gas purification, separation technolo- synthesis approaches, newer properties, and environmental
gies, drug delivery, cell biology, environmental remediation, applications of nanoporous materials. A total of 6 research
water desalination, purification, separation, sensors, optical, articles reporting on the synthetic design, characterization,
and electronic and magnetic devices. Typical examples of property, analysis, and applications are presented in this
natural and synthetic nanoporous solids are zeolites, acti- special issue. The articles cover diverse nanoporous materials
vated carbon, metal-organic frameworks, covalent organic and morphologies such as anodic CaO-TiO2 nanotubes (C.
frameworks, ceramics, silicates, nonsiliceous materials, aero- W. Lai), novel silica nanowires with intrawire lamellae (M. Z.
gels, pillared materials, various polymers, and inorganic Hu et al.), Fe nanoparticles (S.-H. Chaung et al.), montmo-
porous hybrid materials. However, the applicability of the rillonite with 7–9 nm pores (Y. Li et al.), chitosan polymer
porous nanomaterials depends on their targeted design at the membrane (Y.-J. Chuang et al.), and a model SiC with
atomic and molecular level which controls their porosity and C-terminated surface (M. Calvino et al.). The preparation
surface area. The nanoporous materials can be synthesized techniques such as rapid-anodic oxidation electrochemical
in the laboratories using organic or inorganic templates. anodization (C. W. Lai), evaporation-induced self-assembly
The self-assembly of organic templates or the existing pore inside 50–200 nm diameter channels of anodized aluminum
size of the inorganic templates controls the porosity of oxide and polycarbonate (M. Z. Hu et al.), borohydride
the final product. In addition, the nanometer-size pores reduction (S.-H. Chaung et al.), ball milling (Y. Li et al.),
can be utilized to impregnate nanoparticles/proteins/ions and desolvation (Y.-J. Chuang et al,) have been extensively
to create multifunctional hybrids of practical and scientific presented. The electronic properties of porous SiC were inves-
interests. Considering the widespread applications of these tigated by ab initio DFT method (M. Calvino et al.). Most
nanoporous materials, uncovering their recent synthesis importantly, these articles cover wide application prospects,
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Acknowledgments
We would like to thank all the authors and coauthors for
contributing their important research and all the reviewers
for their valuable time and dedication to this special issue.
Sayan Bhattacharyya
Yitzhak Mastai
Rabi Narayan Panda
Sun-Hwa Yeon
Michael Z. Hu
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