| dc.description.abstract | In recent years, there has been a rising interest in the field of highly-porous materials. Porous materials come in a large variety of subtypes, allowing for very high levels of versatility and tunability. Porous materials can include both organic and inorganic materials, such as polymers, mesoporous silica, zeolites, covalent organic frameworks (COFs) and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). These materials often have varying pore sizes, beginning at the nano-scale and extending to visually discernable pore openings.
While a sizable portion of scientific research has focused on the development of novel porous materials with increasingly favorable properties, a significant portion of these porous materials have yet to find niche applications outside the laboratory. While many scientifically exciting discoveries perform admirably on the lab scale, going to bulk scale often comes with many challenges that do not present significant issues at smaller scales. Additionally, the syntheses of many porous materials, such as COFs and MOFs, are subject to very specific conditions, with minor changes in these procedures leading to an absence of product formation. As such, the work in this dissertation primarily focuses on materials with existing bulk production procedures, specifically discussing the modification of such materials to provide favorable properties that can then be applied to large scale production. | en |
