Recent progress in the biomass-mediated synthesis of porous materials

摘要

The aim of this Account article is to demonstrate the versatility of using biomass residues or their extracted molecules in the synthesis of different families of porous materials. While our former studies mainly focused on zeolites, the present contribution gives more space to polyoxometalates (POMs), layered-doubled hydroxides (LDHs) as well as transitional mesoporous aluminas. The Bio-Sourced Secondary Template (BSST) strategy presented herein should serve as a basis for rationally preparing porous materials (micro-, meso- or macro- or combination of those) for sorption or catalytic applications.