1. Editorial

   • Sridhar Komarneni

   EditorialNotes Pages: 5 - 5

2. Aerogels—Nanoporous materials part I: Sol-gel process and drying of gels

   • T. Heinrich
   • U. Klett
   • J. Fricke

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 17

3. A hot isostatic process for fabricating porous materials

   • Kozo Ishizaki
   • Makoto Nanko

   OriginalPaper Pages: 19 - 27

4. Optical and electrochemical properties of titania pillared clays

   • Shoji Yamanaka
   • Koji Makita

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 41

5. The preparation of active carbons from natural materials for use in gas storage

   • J. A. F. MacDonald
   • D. F. Quinn

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 54

6. Probing the pore structure and dehumidifying characteristics of chemically modified zeolite Y

   • Prakash B. Malla
   • Sridhar Komarneni

   OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 67

7. Porous alumina ceramics for slip casting molds

   • Yoshihito Kondo
   • Yutaka Hashizuka
   • Kozo Ishizaki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 74

8. Carbon-silica xerogel and aerogel composites

   • Chunling Liu
   • Sridhar Komarneni

   OriginalPaper Pages: 75 - 84

9. Solid-state ion exchange reactions between homoionic-montmorillonites and organoammonium salts

   • Makoto Ogawa
   • Akira Hagiwara
   • Kazuyuki Kuroda

   OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 89

10. Mercury porosimeter as a means to measure mechanical properties of aerogels

    • J. Majling
    • S. Komarneni
    • V. S. Fajnor

    OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 95

11. The microstructure of alumina pillared acid-activated clays

    • R. Mokaya
    • W. Jones

    OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 110

12. Using the high pressure methane isotherm for determination of pore size distribution of carbon adsorbents

    • K. A. Sosin
    • D. F. Quinn

    OriginalPaper Pages: 111 - 119