Environmental applications of engineered materials with nanoconfinement

S Zhang, T Hedtke, X Zhou, M Elimelech… - ACS ES&T …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Engineered nanoporous materials have been extensively employed in the environmental
field to take advantage of increased surface area and tunable size exclusion. Beyond those …

Nanoconfinement engineering for enchanced adsorption of carbon materials, metal–organic frameworks, mesoporous silica, MXenes and porous organic polymers: a …

Z Zhou, F Yu, J Ma - Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2022 - Springer
In material synthesis, nanoconfinement acts both as a physical reactor to tune the shape and
size of nanomaterials, and as a chemical microenvironment for the nucleation and growth of …

Single molecule fluorescence imaging of nanoconfinement in porous materials

B Dong, N Mansour, TX Huang, W Huang… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
This review covers recent progress in using single molecule fluorescence microscopy
imaging to understand the nanoconfinement in porous materials. The single molecule …

[HTML][HTML] Surface barriers to mass transfer in nanoporous materials for catalysis and separations

S Xu, K Zheng, CR Boruntea, D Cheng… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Surface barriers to mass transfer in various nanoporous materials have been increasingly
identified. These past few years especially, a significant impact on catalysis and separations …

[HTML][HTML] Emergent behavior in nanoconfined molecular containers

W Liu, JF Stoddart - Chem, 2021 - cell.com
The expression of biological functions, such as enzyme catalysis, immune response, and
cargo transport in confined nanospaces, with very different physical and chemical …

[HTML][HTML] Nanoreactors: small spaces, big implications in chemistry

SH Petrosko, R Johnson, H White… - Journal of the American …, 2016 - ACS Publications
In recent years, chemists have worked to understand how fundamental chemical principles
change when systems are confined to spaces with nanoscale dimensions or sub-microliter …

Chemical reactivity under nanoconfinement

AB Grommet, M Feller, R Klajn - Nature nanotechnology, 2020 - nature.com
Confining molecules can fundamentally change their chemical and physical properties.
Confinement effects are considered instrumental at various stages of the origins of life, and …

Critical knowledge gaps in mass transport through single-digit nanopores: A review and perspective

S Faucher, N Aluru, MZ Bazant… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Not all nanopores are created equal. By definition, nanopores have characteristic diameters
or conduit widths between∼ 1 and 100 nm. However, the narrowest of such pores, perhaps …

Unraveling structure and dynamics in porous frameworks via advanced in situ characterization techniques

V Bon, E Brunner, A Pöppl… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamic metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) represent a subgroup of frameworks featuring
unique performance, as they are capable of adapting their pore size and/or the orientation of …

Characterization of nanoporous materials

M Thommes, C Schlumberger - Annual Review of Chemical and …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Detailed analysis of textural properties, eg, pore size and connectivity, of nanoporous
materials is essential to identify correlations of these properties with the performance of gas …