Porous materials articles within Nature Communications

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    Carbon-based materials are promising supercapacitor electrodes, but suffer from limited energy densities. Here, the authors report a holey graphene framework with hierarchical porous structures and fully accessible surface areas, leading to high energy densities comparable to lead-acid batteries.

    • Yuxi Xu
    • , Zhaoyang Lin
    •  & Xiangfeng Duan

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    Fluorocarbons are industrially important chemicals and materials for their adsorption and separation have applications in refrigeration and environmental technologies. Here, the authors investigate the adsorption behaviour of fluorocarbons on a series of metal-organic frameworks.

    • Radha Kishan Motkuri
    • , Harsha V. R. Annapureddy
    •  & Praveen K. Thallapally

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    The idea that closed-end pores should not display an adsorption–desorption hysteresis loop has long been proposed but never experimentally confirmed. Here, through the preparation of highly uniform pores with smooth walls, the authors confirm the presence of a reversible isotherm in such systems.

    • Giampaolo Mistura
    • , Alessandro Pozzato
    •  & Massimo Tormen

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    The controlled synthesis of monodisperse nanospheres faces a number of difficulties, such as extensive crosslinking during hydrothermal processes. Here, the authors show a route for the controlled synthesis of mesoporous polymer nanospheres, which can be further converted into carbon nanospheres through carbonization.

    • Jian Liu
    • , Tianyu Yang
    •  & Shi Zhang Qiao

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    Mesoporous oxides are important materials with a range of tunable structural properties. Here, the authors report a general, inverse micelle-based method to produce crystalline mesoporous materials with monomodal pore sizes from a range of elements.

    • Altug S. Poyraz
    • , Chung-Hao Kuo
    •  & Steven L. Suib

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    Porous solids have potential applications in energy storage, gas separation and catalysis technologies. Here, the authors report a hierarchical solid with porosity spanning the micro, meso and macro ranges, which is synthesized using templating silica, and potassium ions as both templates and reactive species.

    • Yu Ren
    • , Zhen Ma
    •  & Peter G. Bruce

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    | Open Access

    Conjugated microporous polymers are highly flexible materials that may be used for gas storage and catalysis applications. Here, the authors report metal-functionalized conjugated microporous polymers capable of both capturing CO2and functioning as a heterogeneous catalyst in its conversion to propylene carbonate.

    • Yong Xie
    • , Ting-Ting Wang
    •  & Wei-Qiao Deng

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    Membranes for molecular-level sieving based on processable, permeable polymers are desirable for industrial processes. Here, the authors report the photo-oxidative surface modification of these membranes, which results in asymmetric materials with high selectivity and permeability for gas separations.

    • Qilei Song
    • , Shuai Cao
    •  & Easan Sivaniah

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    The development of materials for the effective removal of oils and solvents from water is of global importance. Here, the authors show that porous, hexagonal boron nitride nanosheets are capable of absorbing many times their own weight in oil while repelling water, and may be cleaned for reuse by heating or burning in air.

    • Weiwei Lei
    • , David Portehault
    •  & Ying Chen

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    The synthesis of porous materials designed with specific applications in mind is fundamentally challenging. Here, the authors fabricate single-molecule trap cavities designed for complimentary interactions with CO2 and show that these traps can be assembled into materials with high CO2selectivity.

    • Jian-Rong Li
    • , Jiamei Yu
    •  & Hong-Cai Zhou

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    The practical performance of lithium sulphide batteries is much less than their predicted performance because redox products dissolve over time. Su and Manthiram show that microporous carbon membranes inserted between cathode and separator localize soluble polysulphide species and improve battery cycling characteristics.

    • Yu-Sheng Su
    •  & Arumugam Manthiram

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    The construction of porous solids from discrete organic molecules usually involves the formation of regular porous crystals. In this study, a covalent scrambling reaction gives molecules with a range of shapes that do not pack effectively — manipulation of the reagent ratio allows fine control of porosity.

    • Shan Jiang
    • , James T. A. Jones
    •  & Andrew I. Cooper

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