FDU Materials are a class of regularly structured mesoporous organic materials first synthesized at Fudan University in Shanghai,

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(hence FDU). FDU-14 -15 and -16 are formed by polymerizing resol around a lyotropic

liquid crystal Liquid crystal (LC) is a state of matter whose properties are between those of conventional liquids and those of solid crystals. For example, a liquid crystal may flow like a liquid, but its molecules may be oriented in a crystal-like way. T ...

template and then removing the template by calcination.

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