Pore Show

by Hermann Gies Nature, 29 Sep 2005 The discovery of ordered mesoporous materials has had an enormous impact on materials research. Such materials have influenced work on gels, surfactants, composite materials, nanomaterials and zeolites (catalytic and adsorbent materials familiar as, for example, water-softeners). Self-organization, surface ('heterogeneous') catalysis and separation technologies have also felt their effects. Writing on page 716 of this issue, Zou et al.3 introduce a mesoporous germanium oxide (germanate) material possessing exciting structural properties that could spur further investigations. Read more