Templated mesoporous materials: expectations, facts and challenges

Abstract

This presentation included an overview of the main types of the mesoporous structures that can be generated via template processes, addressing the role of surface chemistry on their formation and implications in their properties and applications. Some aspects considered involved the introduction of catalytic functionalities, the important contributions that these model porous solids brought to the testing of fundamentals underlying gas adsorption, previously developed with common mesoporous materials having broad pore size distributions, and also their potential as molecular sieves for big molecules in the liquid phase. Together with the beautiful aspects, some challenges still to overcome, were also mentioned.