tailieunhanh - NANOPOROUS MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

In the last decade, we have witnessed a rapid growth in research and development of nanotechnology, especially nanostructured materials. Nanoporous materials as an important class of nanostructured materials possess high specific surface area, large pore volume, uniform pore size, and rich surface chemistry. These materials present great promises and opportunities for a new generation of functional materials with improved and tailorable properties for applications in adsorption, membranes, sensors, energy storage, catalysis and photocatalysis, and biotechnology, etc. Interest in making materials from nanoscale building blocks arose from discoveries that by controlling the size in the range of 1-100 nm and the assembly of such constituents, one could alter and prescribe the properties of. | Series on Chemical Engineering Vol. 4 Nanoporous Materials Science and Engineering edited by G. Q. Lu X. s. Zhao Imperial College Press Nanoporous Materials Science and Engineering . . University of Queensland Australia X. s. Zhao National University of Singapore Singapore Imperial College Press Published by Imperial College Press 57 Shelton Street Covent Garden London WC2H 9HE Distributed by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. 5 Toh Tuck Link Singapore 596224 USA office 27 Warren Street Suite 401 102 Hackensack NJ 07601 UK office 57 Shelton Street Covent Garden London WC2H 9HE British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. NANOPOROUS MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Series on Chemical Engineering Copyright 2004 by Imperial College Press All rights reserved. This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying recording or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented without written permission from the Publisher. For photocopying of material in this volume please pay a copying fee through the Copyright Clearance Center Inc. 222 Rosewood Drive Danvers MA 01923 USA. In this case permission to photocopy is not required from the publisher. ISBN 1-86094-210-5 ISBN 1-86094-211-3 pbk Editor Tjan Kwang Wei Printed in Singapore by World Scientific Printers S Pte .