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

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 thro...

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Autores principales: Muhammad Ahmad Mudassir, Hafiz Zohaib Aslam, Tariq Mahmood Ansari, Haifei Zhang, Irshad Hussain
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Publicado: Wiley 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/273c47f788c2422b82e427d343ac9d1f
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Sumario: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.