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PMMoTo: A Porous Media Morphology and Topology Toolkit
1Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America.
Journal of Open Source Software
|March 16, 2026
Summary
The Porous Media Morphology and Topology Toolkit (PMMoTo) software aids researchers in analyzing porous structures. It helps understand how pore shape and connectivity impact material behavior for better predictive models.
Area of Science:
- Materials Science
- Computational Science
Background:
- Porous media are ubiquitous in nature and engineering, including soil, membranes, and biological tissues.
- The behavior of these materials at macroscopic scales is critically dependent on their internal structure at microscopic levels.
Purpose of the Study:
- To introduce the Porous Media Morphology and Topology Toolkit (PMMoTo) as a novel software solution.
- To enable researchers to analyze and quantify the morphology and topology of porous structures.
Main Methods:
- Development of a specialized software toolkit, PMMoTo.
- Utilizing computational methods to characterize pore shape, size distribution, and connectivity.
Main Results:
- PMMoTo provides quantitative metrics for porous structure morphology and topology.
- The toolkit facilitates the correlation of microstructural features with macroscale material properties.
Conclusions:
- Characterizing porous media morphology and topology is essential for understanding material behavior.
- PMMoTo offers a valuable tool for advancing research in porous materials science and engineering.
