Porous Liquids: Versatile Fusion of Porosity and Fluidity

Porous liquids and fluids with permanent porosity have been explored over the past decade as transformative functional materials for several sustainable chemical processes. This perspective tracks the evolution of porous liquids and summarizes recent advances in the development of porous liquids for several applications, such as sorptive separations, catalysis, etc. The latter section discusses the prospects of porous liquids in several novel applications (bio applications, gas storage, heat insulation) and machine learning guided pathways for task-specific design and synthesis of porous liquids.