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Colloid-Based Porous Materials: Design and Catalytic Performance
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Colloid-Based Porous Materials: Design and Catalytic Performance

A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Catalytic Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2022) | Viewed by 2462

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Tanya Shirman

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Guest Editor
1. Metalmark Innovations, Boston, MA, USA
2. Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, USA
Interests: bio-inspired materials design; self-assembly; nanomaterials; advanced nanostructured catalytic materials for environmental applications

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to contribute the Special Issue entitled "Colloid-Based Porous Materials: Design and Catalytic Performance".

Colloid-templated materials provide many advantages in the design of catalysts for a wide range of applications. The assembly process presents many degrees of freedom, allowing for architectural and compositional tunability, producing a porous network whose various  features can be pre-designed and controlled, including wall thickness, pore size, pore interconnectivity, and pore shape. Post-processing allows for further control over many of those aspects as well as for chemical functionalization and incorporation of additional functional materials (e.g. metal nanoparticles, quantum dots, etc.), all of which are important for developing catalysts having high activity and selectivity, thermal stability, and superior mass transport. During the last decade, colloid templated catalysts have been designed for many catalytic processes including oxidation and reduction in industrial and automotive harmful byproducts, chemical fuels catalysis, biomass upgrading, photocatalysis, and water splitting.

This Special Issue will contain comprehensive studies on various aspects of colloid-templated catalytic materials from their design to catalytic performance. The issue aims to highlight our current knowledge and open questions on this exciting theme. We would be honored to feature your work on this topic as we believe you could make an excellent contribution based on your expertise in this field.

Submit your paper and select the Journal “Catalysts” and the Special Issue “Colloid-Based Porous Materials: Design and Catalytic Performance” via: MDPI submission system. Please contact the Guest Editor or the journal editor ([email protected]) for any queries. Our papers will be published on a rolling basis and we will be pleased to receive your submission once you have finished it.

Dr. Tanya Shirman
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Catalysts is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • catalysis
  • colloids
  • opals
  • inverse opals
  • porous materials
  • colloidal assembly
  • self-assembly
  • 3D ordered porous materials (3DOM)
  • hierarchical porosity

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Raspberry Colloid Templated Catalysts Fabricated Using Spray Drying Method
by Gabrielle Busto, Roza Wineh, Hediyeh Zamani, Elijah Shirman, Sissi Liu, Anna V. Shneidman and Tanya Shirman
Catalysts 2023, 13(1), 60; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/catal13010060 - 28 Dec 2022
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The majority of industrial chemical processes—from production of organic and inorganic compounds to air and water treatment—rely on heterogeneous catalysts. The performance of these catalysts has improved over the past several decades; in parallel, many innovations have been presented in publications, demonstrating increasingly [...] Read more.
The majority of industrial chemical processes—from production of organic and inorganic compounds to air and water treatment—rely on heterogeneous catalysts. The performance of these catalysts has improved over the past several decades; in parallel, many innovations have been presented in publications, demonstrating increasingly higher efficiency and selectivity. One common challenge to adopting novel materials in real-world applications is the need to develop robust and cost-effective synthetic procedures for their formation at scale. Herein, we focus on the scalable production of a promising new class of materials—raspberry-colloid-templated (RCT) catalysts—that have demonstrated exceptional thermal stability and high catalytic activity. The unique synthetic approach used for the fabrication of RCT catalysts enables great compositional flexibility, making these materials relevant to a wide range of applications. Through a series of studies, we identified stable formulations of RCT materials that can be utilized in the common industrial technique of spray drying. Using this approach, we demonstrate the production of highly porous Pt/Al2O3 microparticles with high catalytic activity toward complete oxidation of toluene as a model reaction. Full article
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