Abstract: In a method of manufacturing an organic/inorganic hybrid porous material containing both mesopores and macropores, a homogenous solution is prepared where a water-soluble polymer or amphipathic material as a phase separation induction element is dissolved in an aqueous solution containing sol-gel reaction catalyst elements, and a continuous 3-dimensional mesh-structured gel including a solvent-rich phase is formed. The gel is immersed in an aqueous solution containing a compound generating ammonia via hydrolysis and curing under hydrothermal conditions by heating in a closed state to form macropores by drying the gel and to evaporate the solvent from the solvent rich phase. Mesopores is formed in the skeletal phase by removing the phase separation induction elements from the gel after drying via thermolysis or extraction.

Abstract: It is provided a monolithic reactive porous support with efficiency and performance better than a particulate support used in a batch method requiring a liquid-solid separation process or a filling column method requiring a high pressure for liquid supply. In a solution containing a starting material having a reactive site, a precursor of a monolithic porous gel formed of silica, a metal oxide, or an organic-inorganic hybrid composition is reacted. Accordingly, sol-gel transformation and phase separation are induced at the same time to form a gel of the composition having continuous pores with a diameter of 100 nm or greater.