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Birth of a class of nanomaterial

Nearly 30 years ago, a simple chemical principle was reported that enabled the synthesis of a plethora of porous materials — some of which might enable applications ranging from biomedicine to petrochemical processing.
  1. Ryong Ryoo

    1. Ryong Ryoo is at the Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions, Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon 34141, South Korea, and in the Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon.

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In 1992, Kresge et al.1 reported a breakthrough in materials science. They described multimolecular templates that guide the assembly of ordered mesoporous molecular sieves — materials that contain uniform, regularly arranged pores with mesoscopic diameters (between 2 and 50 nanometres). Their findings triggered an explosion of research into mesoporous materials, which have since been intensively studied for applications as diverse as catalysis, molecular adsorption, drug delivery and molecular separations using membranes.

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Nature 575, 40-41 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02835-7

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