ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the art of the composites “salt in porous matrix’’ developed for methanol sorption. It presents their sorption properties and discusses tools available for nanotailoring the affinity for methanol vapor. The chapter considers how to choose the active salt, host matrix, and synthesis conditions, and how these factors contribute to the sorption properties of the final composites. It describes the target-oriented design of methanol sorbents for various practical applications, e.g., adsorptive cooling and shifting the equilibrium of catalytic methanol synthesis. Methanol is a volatile organic compound harmful to human health, and its removal from gases is the main area where methanol adsorbents are widely utilized. The methanol sorption by the composite cannot be represented as a simple addition of the sorption by the bulk salt and the host material taken with appropriate weight coefficients.
