Abstract
Amphiphilic organic molecules have often been transformed into liquid-crystal structures in their concentrated solutions. This paper focuses on a group of porous materials, called “ordered mesoporous materials.” Ordered mesoporous materials have nanostructures that replicate liquid-crystal structures. I report on the current level of compositional design that can be realized using mesoporous materials. In addition to silica-based materials, various inorganic compositions have been recently considered as possible alternatives. I have been striving to develop a more difficult method to obtain hybrid mesoporous materials in a non-silica-based system. To realize this, I have selected novel chemical resources for the synthesis of ordered mesoporous materials, proposed a new synthetic route, and realized reactivity control of such chemical resources and their functional design.
