The development of advanced materials for heterogeneous catalytic applications requires
fine control over the synthesis and structural parameters of the active site. Mesoporous silica …

Ionic liquids (ILs) have been widely investigated as novel solvents, electrolytes, and soft
functional materials. Nevertheless, the widespread applications of ILs in most cases have …

There are many reasons to report on silica interacting with biomolecules. The most obvious
one is that on the Earth's crust, oxygen and silicon are the most abundant atomic species …

In this article, the effects of size and confinement at the nanometre size scale on both the
melting temperature, T m, and the glass transition temperature, T g, are reviewed. Although …

We present a review of experimental, theoretical, and molecular simulation studies of
confinement effects on freezing and melting. We consider both simple and more complex …

Ionic liquids are emerging as important materials for applications in electrochemical devices,
green chemistry etc. For device applications, ionic liquids are generally, either incorporated …

Solid-liquid phase change material (PCM) is the key factor for the development of thermal
energy storage (TES) technology, which substantially contributes to the utilization of …

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) cryoporometry is a technique for non-destructively
determining pore size distributions in porous media through the observation of the …

Loading with guest molecules is a crucial step for most applications of porous materials. For
metal-organic frameworks, which are one of the most intensely investigated classes of …

Summary Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), composed of organic linkers and metal-
containing nodes, are one of the most rapidly develo** families of functional materials …