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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. 


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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.


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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.



Direct synthesis of ordered and highly functionalized organosilicas containing carboxylic acid groups

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


Induced chirality

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.


Microporous layered organic-inorganic hybrid nanocomposites

Hot paper: New microporous layered organic-inorganic hybrid nanocomposites

04 September 2006

Ryo Ishii and colleagues have intercalated alkoxysilanes into the layered silicate, ilerite


Magnetically induced mesochannels in mesoporous silica films

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.


Magnetically separable mesoporous carbons

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


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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.


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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.


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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.


Hot paper archive

Recent hot articles, organised by subject

Porous materials

Including reviews on mesoporous silica, porous metals and the applications of porous materials