Verified syntheses of mesoporous materials
A very large number of different synthesis approaches for the preparation of mesoporous materials has
been reported in literature since the first development of ordered mesoporous materials in the 1990’s.
Since then, the synthesis of advanced mesoporous materials has undergone an explosive growth. Moreover,
this type of materials gains growing success in a wide variety of applications. For these reasons and
with the example of the book of verified microporous zeolite syntheses in mind, it is obvious that there is
a growing need for verified synthesis methods of mesoporous materials. In this work, verified synthesis
methods have been compiled for a large number of selected relevant structured mesoporous silica and
titania materials as well as for some super-microporous materials (defined herein as materials with pore
diameters between 1.5 and 2 nm). In addition, for each material, a basic set of material characteristics
have been reported based on the most commonly applied characterization techniques (nitrogen sorption,
XRD, TEM, SEM, NMR, etc.) for mesoporous materials