Journal of Materials Chemistry Hot Papers:
Porous materials
Journal of Materials Chemistry hot papers featured in this porous materials section have been rated as "outstanding" by expert reviewers in the field. Follow each link for an article about the paper or an interview with the authors.
Hot Paper: Microporous materials derived from two- and three-dimensional hyperbranched conjugated polymers by thermal elimination of substituents
31 October 2007
Read Masashi Kijima's latest Hot Paper demonstating that porous pyrolytic polymers can be synthesized from hyperbranched conjugated polymers.
Hot Paper: Assembly of Spherical Micelles in 2D Physical Confinements and Their Replication into Mesoporous Silica Nanorods
31 October 2007
Read Galen Stucky's latest Hot Paper describing the influence of 2D cylindrical confinement on the assembly of spherical micelles.

Hot paper: Synthesis of monodisperse spherical silica particles with solid core and mesoporous shell: mesopore channels perpendicular to the surface
22 February 2007
Jong-Sung Yu tells Journal of Materials Chemistry about his hot paper
Hot paper: Direct synthesis of ordered and highly functionalized organosilicas containing carboxylic acid groups
19 January 2007
Ahmad Mehdi and co-workers discuss their work making ordered functionalized organosilicas
Hot paper: Induction and detection of chirality in doped sol-gel materials: NMR and circular dichroism studies
16 November 2006
David Avnir and colleagues discuss their work inducing and detecting chirality in doped silica.

Hot paper: New microporous layered organic-inorganic hybrid nanocomposites
04 September 2006
Ryo Ishii and colleagues have intercalated alkoxysilanes into the layered silicate, ilerite

Hot paper: Magnetically induced orientation of mesochannels in 2D-hexagonal mesoporous silica films
08 August 2006
Kazuyuki Kuroda and co-workers have used magnetism to produce mesoporous silica films with aligned channels.

Hot paper: Synthesis of Magnetically Separable Ordered Mesoporous Carbons
19 July 2006
Ryong Ryoo and colleagues have prepared ordered mesoporous carbons that can be separated using a magnetic field

Hot Communication: Hydrogen adsorption on magnesium-exchanged zeolites
22 June 2006
Gemma Turnes Palomino and colleagues have investigated the hydrogen storage properties of magnesium-exchanged zeolites.

Hot paper: Morphology templating of nanofibrous silica through pH-sensitive gels: in situ and post-diffusion strategies
24 March 2006
Mario Llusar and Clément Sanchez have used a pH sensitive gelator to template nanofibrous silica.

Hot paper: Induced mesophase transformation to synthesize highly ordered mesoporous silica structures
14 March 2006
Dongyuan Zhao has shown successive transformations between four large pore mesoporous materials.
Recent hot articles, organised by subject
Including reviews on mesoporous silica, porous metals and the applications of porous materials
