ABSTRACT
In recent years, nanomaterials have been a major focus of nanoscience and nanotechnology. It is a self-growing field of study attracting tremendous interest, insight, and effort in research and development around the world for its multidomain applications. Nanoporous materials are a type of nanostructured materials that possess unique surface, structural, and bulk properties. This underlines their important usage in various fields of research such as ion exchange, separation, catalysis, sensor applications, biological molecular isolation, and purification. Nanoporous materials are also of scientific and technological importance because of their great ability to adsorb and interact with atoms, ions, and molecules on their large interior surfaces and in the nanometer-sized pore space. They offer new opportunities in areas of inclusion chemistry, guest-host synthesis, molecular manipulations, and reactions in the nanoscale for making nanoparticles, nanowires, and other quantum nanostructures.
