Invited Talk: Design and Synthesis of Nanoporous Materials for Water Treatment Clean Technology

Recently, nanoporous functional materials such as carbons, metal oxides, metal-organic frameworks, and hybrid composites have received significant interest in materials science because of their advantages of controllable porosity, large surface area, good thermal/chemical stability, high electrical conductivity, catalytic activity, easy modification with other elements and materials, etc. Thus, nanoporous materials have been utilized in varous research fileds. Especially, nanoporous materials can be used in numerous environmental applications including water treatment, air purification, adsorption of toxic materials etc. So far, many strategies have been developed in order to enhance the properties and performances of functional nanoporous nanomaterials in water treatment clean technology. In this presentation, I will present the interesting results for water treatment clean technology based on design and synthesis of nanoarchitectured nanoporous materials of carbons and metal oxides, and hybrid materials focusing on precursor control, high yield synthesis, activation, shape/orientation control, hybridization with other functional materials. The promising applications in water treatemnt using the developed high-performance porous materials will be presented.