“…Mesoporous silica materials, for instance, the SBA (Santa Barbara Amorphous) series, MCM (Mobil Composition of Matter) series, and KIT (Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) series have gained extensive attention over the last decades due to their highly tunable textural and chemical characteristics and are therefore used in different fields: biomedical and pharmaceutical applications, − adsorption of pollutants from wastewater, , catalysis, − aromatization, biogas purification and upgrading, sensing, desulfurization, − for CO 2 capture, − Li-ion battery application, upgrading microalgal biocrude, hydrodenitrogenation, and hydrogen production. , Figure (a) displays the number of publications for mesoporous silica materials, and Figure (b) shows their applications in different research areas from 2000 to 2021 (Web of Science). Poly(ethylene glycol)- block -poly(propylene glycol)- block -poly(ethylene glycol) (P123 copolymer), poly(ethylene oxide)-poly(propylene oxide)-poly(ethylene oxide) (pluronic F-127) as nonionic surfactants, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTABr), and cetyltriethylammonium bromide (CTEABr) as cationic surfactants, and anionic surfactants such as sodium dodecyl benzenesulfonate (SDBS) and sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) as well as ionic liquid (IL) are the common organic templates used for the synthesis of mesoporous silica materials.…”