Structure Property Correlations for Nanoporous Materials

Nanoporous materials are critical to various fields of research, including ion exchange, separation, catalysis, sensor applications, biological molecular isolation, and purification. In addition, they offer new opportunities in such areas as inclusion chemistry, guest-host synthesis, and molecular manipulations and reactions at the nanoscale. In Structure Property Correlations for Nanoporous Materials, pioneering researcher Abhijit Chatterjee guides experimentalists in their design of nanoporous material using computer simulation methodologies.

The book begins with a comprehensive overview of nanoporous materials. It describes their function, examines their fundamental properties, including catalytic effects and adsorption, demonstrates their importance, explores their applications based on theoretical and experimental studies, and highlights the challenges they pose as well as their future prospects.

Explores simulation methodologies

Next, the book moves on to molecular modeling, placing a heavy focus on Monte Carlo simulation. It examines density functional theory (DFT) and local reactivity descriptors. It also discusses the synthesis of nanoporous materials, the structural characterization of materials in terms of chemical composition, spectroscopic analysis, mechanical stability, and porosity; and the design of new nanoporous materials. Dr. Chatterjee explores projected applications and concludes with a discussion of the catalytic activity of nanoporous materials and reaction mechanisms.

The text is supplemented with experiments and simulation instructions to clarify the theoretical analysis. Conveying the significance of the combination of traditional experimental work and molecular simulation, the book enables experimentalists to achieve better results with less effort.

Basic Aspects of Nanoporous Materials. Molecular Modeling. Density Functional Theory. Local Reactivity Descriptors. Synthesis of Nanoporous Material. Characterization of Nanoporous Materials. Surface Activity Measurement. Application of Nanoporous Material. Catalytic Reaction. Appendix. Index.

Abhijit Chatterjee received his Ph. D. from Burdwan University in West Bengal, India. He has travelled around the world and collaborated with many groups in catalysis before settling in Japan as a researcher in the field of computational chemistry. His research interest is focused on density functional theory and its application on different materials especially related to catalysis (zeolite, clay, and oxides).