The pressures of increasing global population, climate change, and related geopolitical complexities require fundamentally new, scalable processes to stabilize and support the food-water-energy nexus. In response to this challenge, porous materials have emerged as a key enabler of transformative solutions, offering distinct performance advantages in critical minerals recovery, carbon capture, and water purification applications, among others, due to the unique phenomena that occur in confined environments. Led by faculty across engineering, chemistry, and computer science, Porous Materials for Sustainable Development serves as a platform to advance the fundamental understanding and design of diverse classes of porous materials.
