Porous materials articles within Nature Chemistry

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• News & Views | 20 December 2016

  Encoding evolution of porous solids

  The design and prediction of network topology is challenging, even when the components' principle interactions are strong. Now, frameworks with relatively weak 'chiral recognition' between organic building blocks have been synthesized and rationalized in silico — an important development in the reticular synthesis of molecular crystals.

  • Caroline Mellot-Draznieks
  •  & Anthony K. Cheetham

• Article | 28 October 2012

  Shape-selective sieving layers on an oxide catalyst surface

  Templated atomic layer deposition (ALD) is used to create oxide ‘nanocavities’ on the surface of catalyst particles. Subnanometre-nm films containing nanocavities act as sieves for the underlying catalyst, resulting in high selectivities for the smaller of two reactants in competitive oxidations or reductions.

  • Christian P. Canlas
  • , Junling Lu
  •  & Justin M. Notestein

• Article | 23 September 2012

  Selectivity and direct visualization of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide in a decorated porous host

  Porous solids are well suited to the capture of environmentally harmful gases, but further understanding of the solid–gas interactions involved is required. Combining dynamic and static characterization with modelling, researchers have now described how a metal–organic framework binds CO₂ and SO₂ selectively through hydroxyl groups — rather than amine ones as typically featured.

  • Sihai Yang
  • , Junliang Sun
  •  & Martin Schröder

• Research Highlights | 29 October 2010

  Checking out curves

  The complex pore structures of mesoporous crystals can be elucidated by assessing the curvature of their boundary surface.

  • Neil Withers

• Perspective | 22 October 2010

  Porous organic molecules

  When it comes to porosity, the materials that spring to mind are typically one-, two- or three-dimensional extended networks. In this Perspective, discrete organic molecules are discussed that form porous solids — either owing to hollow molecular structures or simply through inefficient packing — with different properties from those of extended networks.

  • James R. Holst
  • , Abbie Trewin
  •  & Andrew I. Cooper