Dear Colleagues,

The widespread industrialization to cater to the needs of the growing human population has stressed our ecosystem through environmental pollution, setting the stage for a global crisis. This pollution includes everything from the contamination of our food chain (e.g., water bodies, land mass) with toxic effluents, to air pollution, to the contamination of our environment with non-biocompatible medical products. The only solution is to develop systems that are biocompatible, environmentally friendly, and sustainable for our planet. While research is ongoing toward the development of sustainable, environmentally friendly processes, research into nanoporous materials has given us the simple and sustainable solution of trapping and separating these harmful toxins before they reach our ecosystem. The advantage of these nanoporous materials is that their properties are chemically tunable for analyte specificity, they are thermally and mechanically resilient, they have a high surface area for higher uptake capacity, and they are economically viable. It is these aspects that have made them find their way into sustainability applications like carbon capture and environmental remediation.

Through this Special Issue, we aim to provide a comprehensive platform that presents various aspects of the design, development, and application of nanoporous materials towards sustainability. We are interested in covering original research articles, review articles, and perspectives relevant to the field of nanoporous materials. Submissions to this Special Issue should be written from a materials science, chemistry, and engineering stand point and can be computational, theoretical, or experimental studies.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

1. Computational studies, synthesis and characterization of novel nanoporous materials;
2. Design, development, and application of nanoporous materials for environmental protection and remediation. Examples: water treatment, carbon capture, air purification, heterogeneous catalysis and photocatalysis;
3. Design, development, and application of nanoporous materials for medical and biological applications. Examples: sensing layers for biosensing, biocompatibility of nanoporous materials used for the sorting and separation of biomolecules for implantable drug delivery systems
4. Novel applications of nanoporous materials and their contributions to sustainable development.

Dr. Anandram Venkatasubramanian
Guest Editor

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• nanoporous materials
• sustainable development
• environment
• medical and biological applications
• separation