"Integrating numerous new results in a single-source volume, Synthesis of Porous Materials explains the preparation of expanded hydrotalcites, pillared clays, and layered phosphates...presents many new materials, including silica-based solids as well as aluminophosphates and related compounds...addresses the synthesis of ordered mesoporous solids, highlighting mechanisms of formation and the incorporation of transition elements...illustrates a novel method of achieving the templating effect in clay synthesis...provides strategies for obtaining specific zeolites...and much more." "With over 1400 bibliographic citations, tables, drawings, and photographs, Synthesis of Porous Materials is an excellent resource for materials scientists; petroleum, biomedical, chemical, materials, and plastics engineers; inorganic, solid-state, polymer, physical, surface, and petroleum chemists; ceramists; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines."--BOOK JACKET.