EPSRC Network for Engineering Porous Materials at Multiple Scales (EPoMM)

多孔材料的研究领域非常广泛，包括无机材料、有机聚合物、合成骨架、生物组织和复合体系。应用的种类也同样广泛，包括可再生能源、分离工艺、碳捕获、催化、净水、电子材料和医药。这需要跨多个科学和工程学科的综合专业知识，并可以使用专业的表征设施来研究孔径大小和可能跨越多个尺度的现象。单一的机构不可能涵盖所有的专业知识、设施和应用，因此需要共同努力。因此，EPSRC多尺度工程多孔材料网络(EPoMM)旨在促进科学家和工程师之间跨越整个工程和物理科学组合的多尺度和以应用为导向的合作。这些合作将激励新的研究方向和新的应用，以实现具有学术、商业和社会效益的全球重大成果。ESPRC多尺度多孔材料工程网络(EPoMM)的愿景是使英国成为国际公认的多尺度多孔材料研究的灯塔，在这里形成新的合作，确定新的研究方向，寻求专家建议，并将创新商业化。

The research area of porous materials is extremely diverse, including inorganic materials, organic polymers, synthetic frameworks, biological tissues and composite systems. The variety of applications is equally wide ranging, including renewable energy, separation processes, carbon capture, catalysis, water purification, electronic materials and medicine. This requires combined expertise across multiple science and engineering disciplines, and access to specialist characterisation facilities to study both pore sizes and phenomena that can span multiple scales. A single institution cannot cover the full range of expertise, facilities and applications and a combined effort is therefore required. The EPSRC Network in Engineering Porous Materials at Multiple Scales (EPoMM) therefore aims to foster multiscale and applications- led collaboration between scientists and engineers that spans the entire engineering and physical sciences portfolio. These collaborations will inspire new research directions and new applications to achieve globally significant outcomes with academic, commercial and societal benefits. The vision of the ESPRC Network for Engineering Porous Materials at Multiple Scales (EPoMM) is to make the UK an internationally recognised beacon for multiscale porous materials research, where new collaborations are formed, new research directions are identified, expert advice can be sought, and innovations are commercialised.