Spotlights on Recent JACS Publications

摘要

Mesoporous materials are full of holes, usually between 2 and 50 nm, and for this reason they are useful for the purposes of separations, drug delivery, catalysis, chemical detection, bone tissue engineering, and more. One way to create a mesoporous structure is to begin with a two-component blend and then dissolve one of the materials, leaving a porous scaffold. Geoffrey Coates, Ulrich Wiesner, and their colleagues extend this technique to a material with three components-specifically a triblock polymer (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b01915).