The course complements and expands students' knowledge in the field of materials chemistry and the chemistry of nanoparticles. The lectures will explain how the presence of pores in a material influences material's macroscopic properties and how pore space can be used in some applications such as heterogeneous catalysis or adsorptions. The aim is to provide a comprehensive overview of what can be expected from materials containing a certain type, size and distribution of pores. The course will cover the following topics: 1. Overview of the topic, definition of materials and their pores, and history of porous materials from natural zeolites to synthetic molecular sieves. 2. Methods for characterization of porous materials. 3. Categorization of porous materials according to chemical nature (zeolites, AIPO, carbon-based materials, MOFs, etc.). 4. Preparation of porous materials and their modifications. 5. Unique phenomena that have been described on porous materials (breathing effect, negative gas adsorption). 6. Usage of porous materials in the laboratory and industry. 7. Modern research trends of porous substances including porous liquids. 8. Practical - sample preparation and measurement on sorption instruments (ÚACH). Literature: 1. Pascal van der Voort, Karen Leus, and Els de Canck, Introduction to Porous Materials. Wiley, (2022). 2. V. F. Yusuf, N. I. Malek, S. K. Kailasa, Review on metal-organic framework classification, synthetic approaches, and influencing factors: Applications in energy, drug delivery, and wastewater treatment. ACS Omega 7 (2022) 44507. 3. C. Candia-Onfray et al., An updated review of metal-organic framework materials in photo(electro)catalytic applications: From CO2 reduction to wastewater treatments. Curr. Opin. Electrochem. 26 (2021) 100669. 4. A. Thomas, Much ado about nothing - a decade of porous materials research. Nat. Commun. 11 (2020) 4985, references therein. 5. V. Sharma et al., A comprehensive review on the synthesis techniques of porous materials for gas separation and catalysis. Can. J. Chem. Eng. 100 (2022) 2653.
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