title: New Insight into the Synthesis of Large-Pore Ordered Mesoporous Materials.
abstract: Ordered mesoporous materials (OMMs) have received increasing interest due to their uniform pore size, high surface area, various compositions and wide applications in energy conversion and storage, biomedicine and environmental remediation, etc. The soft templating synthesis using surfactants or amphiphilic block copolymers is the most efficient method to produce OMMs with tailorable pore structure and surface property. However, due to the limited choice of commercially available soft templates, the common OMMs usually show small pore size and amorphous (or semicrystalline) frameworks. Tailor-made amphiphilic block copolymers with controllable molecular weights and compositions have recently emerged as alternative soft templates for synthesis of new OMMs with many unique features including adjustable mesostructures and framework compositions, ultralarge pores, thick pore walls, high thermal stability and crystalline frameworks. In this Perspective, recent progresses and some new insights into the coassembly process about the synthesis of OMMs based on these tailor-made copolymers as templates are summarized, and typical newly developed synthesis methods and strategies are discussed in depth, including solvent evaporation induced aggregation, ligand-assisted coassembly, solvent evaporation induced micelle fusion-aggregation assembly, homopolymer assisted pore expanding and carbon-supported crystallization strategy. Then, the applications of the obtained large-pore OMMs in catalysis, sensor, energy conversion and storage, and biomedicine by loading large-size guest molecules (e.g., protein and RNA), precious metal nanoparticles and quantum dots, are discussed. At last, the outlook on the prospects and challenges of future research about the synthesis of large-pore OMMs by using tailor-made amphiphilic block copolymers are included.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Shanghai Key Lab of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, iChEM, Fudan University , Shanghai 200433, PR China.|The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University , Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, PR China.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Shanghai Key Lab of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, iChEM, Fudan University , Shanghai 200433, PR China.
authors.forename: Zhenkun
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University , Shanghai 201620, PR China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Shanghai Key Lab of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, iChEM, Fudan University , Shanghai 200433, PR China.
authors.forename: Yuhui
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Materials Science and Technology Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University , PO Box 2713, Doha, Qatar.
authors.forename: Ahmed A
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-7291-5723
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Elzatahry
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University , Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Abdullah M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Al-Enizi
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Shanghai Key Lab of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, iChEM, Fudan University , Shanghai 200433, PR China.|State Key Lab of Transducer Technology, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai 200050, PR China.
authors.forename: Yonghui
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Shanghai Key Lab of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, iChEM, Fudan University , Shanghai 200433, PR China.
authors.forename: Dongyuan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhao
mesh_terms: D057927:Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions; D008823:Micelles; D010316:Particle Size; D011108:Polymers / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D016062:Porosity; D013499:Surface Properties; D013501:Surface-Active Agents / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D008823:Micelles; D011108:Polymers; D013501:Surface-Active Agents