This review focuses on important aspects of applying physisorption for the pore structural characterization of hierarchical materials such as mesoporous zeolites.
We report here on an efficient one-step-impregnation method to synthesize crystalline mesoporous bimetal oxides (e.g.NiFe2O4, CuFe2O4, Cu/CeO2) using mesoporous silicas as hard templates under optimized mixing conditions. This new procedure enables a true replication of the mesostructure with high yield and phase purity, while retaining particle morphology of the template.