Verified syntheses of mesoporous materials

A very large number of different synthesis approaches for the preparation of mesoporous materials has been reported in literature since the first development of ordered mesoporous materials in the 1990's. Since then, the synthesis of advanced mesoporous materials has undergone an explosive growth. Moreover, this type of materials gains growing success in a wide variety of applications. For these reasons and with the example of the book of verified microporous zeolite syntheses in mind, it is obvious that there is a growing need for verified synthesis methods of mesoporous materials. In this work. verified synthesis methods have been compiled for a large number of selected relevant structured mesoporous silica and titania materials as well as for some super-microporous materials (defined herein as materials with pore diameters between 1.5 and 2 nm). In addition, for each material, a basic set of material characteristics have been reported based on the most commonly applied characterization techniques (nitrogen sorption, XRD, TEM, SEM, NMR, etc.) for mesoporous materials. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.