ch. 1. Nanoporous polymers / Jens Weber and Arne Thomas -- ch. 2. Design, synthesis, and functions of conjugated microporous polymers / Yanhong Xu, Shangbin Jin, and Donglin Jiang -- ch. 3. Nanoporous metal-organic frameworks / Hai-Long Jiang and Qiang Xu -- ch. 4. Ordered mesoporous carbons prepared by a soft-templating method / Norikazu Nishiyama and Shunsuke Tanaka -- ch. 5. Dealloyed nanoporous metals / Luyang Chen, Xingyou Lang, and Mingwei Che -- ch. 6. Synthesis of mesoporous metal oxides and metals and their applications / Hongjing Wang, Xiangfen Jiang, and Yusuke Yamauchi -- ch. 7. Preparation of nanoporous semiconductor-based materials for photocatalytic applications / Xingdong Wang, Maryline Chee Kimling, and Rachel Anne Caruso -- ch. 8. Layered zeolites : structure modification and application / Peng Wu, Hao Xu, and Kun Zhang -- ch. 9. Applications of pore voids of mesoporous silica to acid catalysts and controlled release / Masahiro Fujiwara -- ch. 10. Nanopore glass / Tetsuo Yazawa -- ch. 11. Open-framework germanates and related materials / Andrew Ken Inge and Xiaodong Zou.