The study of advanced porous materials (APMs), encompassing metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), covalent organic frameworks (COFs), porous organic polymers (POPs) and others, has progressed rapidly in the past few decades.
On the applications front, APMs have the potential to redefine numerous domains related to energy and the environment. However, the synthesis of remarkably complex functional structures requires potentially elaborate synthetic procedures deserving careful sustainability and life-cycle analyses.
In this Virtual Special Issue “Advanced Porous Materials: Design, Synthesis, and Applications in Sustainability” from ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 34 articles, 2 letters, and 8 perspectives have been curated to offer a cradle-to-grave look at the applications and synthetic methods of APMs.
Advanced Porous Materials: Design, Synthesis, and Applications in Sustainability
Metal–Organic Framework (MOF)-Derived Effective Solid Catalysts for Valorization of Lignocellulosic Biomass
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2018, 6 (11), pp 13628–13643
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b03683
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High Yield, Low-Waste Synthesis of a Family of Pyridyl and Imidazolyl-Substituted Schiff Base Linker Ligands
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2018, 6 (11), pp 14589–14598
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b03204
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Development of Adsorbents for Selective Carbon Capture: Role of Homo- and Cross-Coupling in Conjugated Microporous Polymers and Their Carbonized Derivatives
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2018, 6 (12), pp 17419–17426
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05323
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Amine-Grafted MIL-101(Cr) via Double-Solvent Incorporation for Synergistic Enhancement of CO2 Uptake and Selectivity
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2018, 6 (12), pp 16493–16502
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b03597
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Azo-Bridged Calix[4]resorcinarene-Based Porous Organic Frameworks with Highly Efficient Enrichment of Volatile Iodine
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2018, 6 (12), pp 17402–17409
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05203
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Screening and Design of Covalent Organic Framework Membranes for CO2/CH4 Separation
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (1), pp 1220–1227
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b04858
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Water-Based Synthesis and Enhanced CO2 Capture Performance of Perfluorinated Cerium-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks with UiO-66 and MIL-140 Topology
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (1), pp 394–402
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b03765
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Glycine-Modified HKUST-1 with Simultaneously Enhanced Moisture Stability and Improved Adsorption for Light Hydrocarbons Separation
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (1), pp 1557–1563
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05321
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Computational Design of 2D Covalent-Organic Framework Membranes for Organic Solvent Nanofiltration
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (1), pp 1734–1744
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05599
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Ionic Conduction in Metal–Organic Frameworks with Incorporated Ionic Liquids
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (1), pp 70–81
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05552
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Trace Carbon Dioxide Capture by Metal–Organic Frameworks
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (1), pp 82–93
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05590
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Nanoporous Polymer Microspheres with Nitrile and Amidoxime Functionalities for Gas Capture and Precious Metal Recovery from E-Waste
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (1), pp 123–128
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05490
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Low-Cost and High-Performance Microporous Metal–Organic Framework for Separation of Acetylene from Carbon Dioxide
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (1), pp 1667–1672
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05431
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Crystal Engineering of Metal–Organic Framework Thin Films for Gas Separations
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (1), pp 49–69
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05409
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Facile Fabrication of High Performance Nanofiltration Membranes by Using Molecular Coordination Complexes as Pore-Forming Agents
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (2), pp 2728–2738
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05817
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Energy Efficient Formaldehyde Synthesis by Direct Hydrogenation of Carbon Monoxide in Functionalized Metal–Organic Frameworks
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (2), pp 2508–2515
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05413
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Molecular Simulations of MOF Membranes and Performance Predictions of MOF/Polymer Mixed Matrix Membranes for CO2/CH4 Separations
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (2), pp 2739–2750
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05832
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Light-Harvesting in Porous Crystalline Compositions: Where We Stand toward Robust Metal–Organic Frameworks
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (2), pp 1841–1854
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05673
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Metal–Organic Framework Supported Single Site Chromium(III) Catalyst for Ethylene Oligomerization at Low Pressure and Temperature
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (2), pp 2553–2557
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05524
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Regulating C2H2 and CO2 Storage and Separation through Pore Environment Modification in a Microporous Ni-MOF
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (2), pp 2134–2140
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b04783
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Room-Temperature Tandem Condensation-Hydrogenation Catalyzed by Porous C3N4 Nanosheet-Supported Pd Nanoparticles
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (3), pp 3356–3363
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05531
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Anion Pillared Metal–Organic Framework Embedded with Molecular Rotors for Size-Selective Capture of CO2 from CH4 and N2
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (3), pp 3138–3144
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b04916
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Chemical Liquid Deposition Modified 4A Zeolite as a Size-Selective Adsorbent for Methane Upgrading, CO2 Capture and Air Separation
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (3), pp 3301–3308
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05339
MIL-53(Al)/Carbon Films for CO2-Sensing at High Pressure
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (4), pp 4012–4018
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05368
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Porous Fe–N–C Catalysts for Rechargeable Zinc–Air Batteries from an Iron-Imidazolate Coordination Polymer
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (4), pp 4030–4036
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05403
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Scalable and Sustainable Synthesis of Advanced Porous Materials
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (4), pp 3647–3670
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05463
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Solvent-Free Crystallization of Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework Membrane via Layer-by-Layer Deposition
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (4), pp 4158–4164
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05764
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Conversion of Formic Acid into Methanol Using a Bipyridine-Functionalized Molecular Heterogeneous Catalyst
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (4), pp 3933–3939
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05070
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Synthetic Factors Affecting the Scalable Production of Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (4), pp 3632–3646
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05436
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A High Proton Conductive Hydrogen-Sulfate Decorated Titanium Carboxylate Metal−Organic Framework
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (6), pp 5776–5783
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05306
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Vanadium Docked Covalent-Organic Frameworks: An Effective Heterogeneous Catalyst for Modified Mannich-Type Reaction
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (5), pp 4878–4888
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05373
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Tunability and Scalability of Single-Atom Catalysts Based on Carbon Nitride
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (5), pp 5223–5230
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b06148
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Direct CO2 Capture from Air using Poly(ethylenimine)-Loaded Polymer/Silica Fiber Sorbents
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (5), pp 5264–5273
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b06203
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Microporous Metal–Organic Framework with Dual Functionalities for Efficient Separation of Acetylene from Light Hydrocarbon Mixtures
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (5), pp 4897–4902
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05480
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Chiral DHIP- and Pyrrolidine-Based Covalent Organic Frameworks for Asymmetric Catalysis
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (5), pp 5065–5071
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05887
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Li+ Ion-Conducting Sulfonate-Based Neutral Metal–Organic Framework
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (5), pp 4619–4624
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b06254
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OX-1 Metal–Organic Framework Nanosheets as Robust Hosts for Highly Active Catalytic Palladium Species
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (6), pp 5875–5885
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05843
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Luminescent Metal–Organic Framework for Lithium Harvesting Applications
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (7), pp 6561–6568
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05018
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Covalent and Selective Grafting of Polyethylene Glycol Brushes at the Surface of ZIF-8 for the Processing of Membranes for Pervaporation
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (7), pp 6629–6639
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05587
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Highly Selective Heterogeneous Ethylene Dimerization with a Scalable and Chemically Robust MOF Catalyst
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (7), pp 6654–6661
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05703
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Highly Defective UiO-66 Materials for the Adsorptive Removal of Perfluorooctanesulfonate
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (7), pp 6619–6628
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05572
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Advanced Porous Materials for Sensing, Capture and Detoxification of Organic Pollutants toward Water Remediation
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (8), pp 7456–7478
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b00155
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Selective Aerobic Oxidation of Cumene to Cumene Hydroperoxide over Mono- and Bimetallic Trimesate Metal–Organic Frameworks Prepared by a Facile “Green” Aqueous Synthesis
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (8), pp 7708–7715
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b06472
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Matching the Activity of Homogeneous Sulfonic Acids: The Fructose-to-HMF Conversion Catalyzed by Hierarchically Porous Sulfonic-Acid-Functionalized Porous Organic Polymer (POP) Catalysts
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (9), pp 8126–8135
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05720
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Toward Green Production of Water-Stable Metal–Organic Frameworks Based on High-Valence Metals with Low Toxicities
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, ASAP
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b01022