Part of the appeal of microporous and mesoporous materials is the unique and thorough molecular control of their intrinsic topological and chemical characteristics that nanochemistry is able to provide. With the correct choice of building blocks and self-assembly conditions, it is possible to produce nanostructured materials via chemical processes with precisely defined and tunable chemical functions incorporated into well-defined ordered structured frameworks. This translates into a corresponding fine control in the way such building blocks define chemistry and topology across different length scales. In our lab we are interested in designing multifunctional hybrid nanomaterials by combining ordered porous materials and macromolecular building blocks.