Energy Electronics Institute (EEI) of National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), succeeded first in the world to synthesize crystalline metal oxide (MO) composite porous materials, that is, composite self-ordered nanoporous materials with a framework of crystalline MO with tailored 3-dimensional structures having regularly arranged nanopores and forming a porous framework. The newly developed material is expected to be applicable to catalyst carrier, adsorbent, photocatalyst, dye-sensitized solar cell, sensor, energy storage device, and so on through the utilization of its electronic and chemical properties as well as molecular sieve features of nanopores.

NB: The result of this study was published in a British science journal, Nature Materials, January 2004.