Vitalising porous inorganic silica networks with organic functions—PMOs and related hybrid materials

Abstract

Mesoporous organic-inorganic hybrid materials are an interesting class of materials, which combine the advantages of two worlds; the inorganic part builds a robust substrate while organic functions make them alive in a way that they can be potentially used in a number of applications. In this tutorial review, we provide an overview of how mesoporous materials are synthesised via the 'soft template' path and how the incorporation of organic functions can be achieved. Furthermore, a colourful survey full of examples is presented, providing a small overview of field of applications that can potentially benefit from the use of periodic mesoporous organosilicas (PMOs) and related materials.

Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles: Their Projection in Nanomedicine

“…The presence of high density of surface silanol groups capable of being functionalized using a wide variety of entities represents one of the great milestones of MSNPs [24,69,70]. When nanomedicine applications are aimed, the surface functional groups of MSNPs can play diverse roles, such as tailoring the surface charge of nanoparticles, allowing the grafting of functional molecules inside and outside the pores or facilitating the capping of the nanopore openings to prevent premature release of entrapped drugs.…”

Insights into CO2 and CH4 Adsorption by Pristine and Aromatic Amine-Modified Periodic Mesoporous Phenylene-Silicas

“…Furthermore, it is possible to control the porosity of the PMOs using the template-assisted self-assembly method. [31][32][33][34][35][36][37] All of the features above increase the attractiveness of PMOs as potential adsorbents for CO2/CH4…”

Porous Properties of Pillared Carbons Prepared from the Thermal Reduction of Graphite Oxide Repeatedly Silylated with Methyltrichlorosilanes

“…They include template carbons (Kyotani, 2006), mesoporous silicas or non-siliceous oxides (Kresge et al, 1992;Bagshaw et al, 1995;Shimojima and Kuroda, 2008;Yamauchi et al, 2009a,b;Hoffman and Froeba, 2011;Dong and Ferdi, 2014), porous coordination polymers/metal organic frameworks (PCPs/MOFs) (Yaghi et al, 2003;Kitagawa et al, 2004;Rosseinski, 2004;Férey, 2008;Jiang and Xu, 2011), etc. In this context, we have prepared porous pillared carbons from the thermal reduction of graphite oxide silylated with various silylating reagents (Matsuo et al, 2007(Matsuo et al, , 2009a(Matsuo et al, ,b, 2012aMatsuo and Konishi, 2011).…”