 Silicate mesoporous materials have received widespread interest due to their potential applications as supports for catalysis, separation, selective adsorption, novel functional materials, and uses hosts to confine guest molecules with extremely high surface areas combined with large and uniform pore sizes. These materials can be tailored during synthesis by variation of reactant stoichiometry, surfactant molecule, auxiliary chemicals, reaction conditions, or post-synthesis functionalization techniques. This article was authored by Zeta A. L. Othman.