Fundamentals and Design-Led Synthesis of Emulsion-Templated Porous Materials for Environmental Applications



Mudassir, Muhammad Ahmad, Aslam, Hafiz Zohaib, Ansari, Tariq Mahmood, Zhang, Haifei ORCID: 0000-0001-5142-5824 and Hussain, Irshad
(2021) Fundamentals and Design-Led Synthesis of Emulsion-Templated Porous Materials for Environmental Applications. ADVANCED SCIENCE, 8 (22). e2102540-.

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Abstract

Emulsion templating is at the forefront of producing a wide array of porous materials that offers interconnected porous structure, easy permeability, homogeneous flow-through, high diffusion rates, convective mass transfer, and direct accessibility to interact with atoms/ions/molecules throughout the exterior and interior of the bulk. These interesting features together with easily available ingredients, facile preparation methods, flexible pore-size tuning protocols, controlled surface modification strategies, good physicochemical and dimensional stability, lightweight, convenient processing and subsequent recovery, superior pollutants remediation/monitoring performance, and decent recyclability underscore the benchmark potential of the emulsion-templated porous materials in large-scale practical environmental applications. To this end, many research breakthroughs in emulsion templating technique witnessed by the recent achievements have been widely unfolded and currently being extensively explored to address many of the environmental challenges. Taking into account the burgeoning progress of the emulsion-templated porous materials in the environmental field, this review article provides a conceptual overview of emulsions and emulsion templating technique, sums up the general procedures to design and fabricate many state-of-the-art emulsion-templated porous materials, and presents a critical overview of their marked momentum in adsorption, separation, disinfection, catalysis/degradation, capture, and sensing of the inorganic, organic and biological contaminants in water and air.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: emulsion templating, environmental remediation, porous materials, sensing, water, air treatment
Divisions: Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Physical Sciences
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 08 Dec 2021 15:01
Last Modified: 18 Jan 2023 21:23
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202102540
Open Access URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.2...
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3144967