Recent Development of Bio-inspired Porous Materials for Catalytic Applications

Nature has served as a source of inspiration for chemists to design the catalysts with superior performance via mimicking their characteristics, such as active sites, reaction microenvironment and electron transfer behaviors. Over a few decades, many different types of materials have been widely used to construct the biomimetic catalysts. Among these materials, the porous materials have been demonstrated to be powerful platforms for constructing the biomimetic catalysts owing to their high surface area, controllable composition and easy functionalization. In this review, we briefly showed recent advances in the construction of various biomimetic porous catalysts using porous materials for the design of excellent catalysts. In addition, we also present the challenge and opportunities in this emerging field.