Nanochemistry fabrication methods have improved remarkably over the last few years. Among the different strategies developed to elaborate nanomaterials, the templating method is one of the most attractive as it has proven to be reliable for the synthesis of arrays of nanowires and nanotubules of desired composition, sizes and aspect ratios. Chemical and electrochemical techniques are used for s...

In general, the influence of pore size is not considered when determining the Young's modulus of nanoporous materials. Here, we demonstrate that the pore size needs to be taken into account to properly assess the mechanical properties of these materials. Molecular dynamics simulations of spherical indentation experiments on single crystalline nanoporous Cu have been undertaken in systems with: ...

Heterogeneous systems composed of hydrophobic nanoporous materials and water are capable, depending on their characteristics, of efficiently dissipating (dampers) or storing ("molecular springs") energy. However, it is difficult to predict their properties based on macroscopic theories-classical capillarity for intrusion and classical nucleation theory (CNT) for extrusion-because of the peculia...

Unprecedented hydrothermal stability in functional membranes has been obtained with hybrid organic-inorganic nanoporous materials, enabling long-term application in energy-efficient molecular separation, including dehydration up to at least 150 degrees C.

Three-dimensionally interconnected, highly porous silica materials with ordering on three different scales, that is, macropores (10-30 μm), interconnecting windows (3-5 μm), and nanoporous walls (∼80 nm), are prepared via a dual-templating approach.

The archetypal silica- and aluminosilicate-based zeolite-type materials are renowned for wide-ranging applications in heterogeneous catalysis, gas-separation and ion-exchange. Their compositional space can be expanded to include nanoporous metal chalcogenides, exemplified by germanium and tin sulfides and selenides. By comparison with the properties of bulk metal dichalcogenides and their 2D de...