Porous Polymer Materials: Design & Applications
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 6890
Special Issue Editor
Interests: porous organic polymers; organocatalysis; heterogeneous catalysts; Metal–Organic Framework(MOF); zeolites; mesoporous materials
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Dear Colleagues,
Porous polymers have been attracting increasing interest over the years due to their very high specific surface area, nanoscale porosity, high mechanical and chemical stability, and convenient synthetic strategies. Diversity in the choice of the building blocks involving simple aliphatic, aromatic or cyclic reactive monomers together with the feasibility of the random orientation of the structural units for the synthesis of porous polymers have opened new frontiers in material design. Furthermore, hydrothermal synthesis involving different structure-directing agents as well as hard-templating routes for the design of mesoporous polymers are very useful for exploring host–guest chemistry involving bulky organic molecules. The exceptionally high surface area of these porous polymers, in turn, offers huge scope for immobilizing reactive moieties (metal/metal oxide nanoparticles/clusters/molecules or ions/dyes/drugs) at their pore surfaces. Starting from the design of simple adsorbents for the removal of organic and inorganic pollutants from water, to the complex design of heterogeneous catalysts based on these porous supports or exploration of the void spaces of these porous organics for electrical, electrochemical, photoelectrochemical or optoelectronics applications can be achieved using these nanoporous materials. In-depth understanding of their structure–property relationships will open up several new avenues in energy, environmental and biomedical research in the years to come.
Prof. Dr. Asim Bhaumik
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- porous organic polymers
- conjugated microporous polymers
- hypercrosslinked polymers
- ordered mesoporous polymers
- biofuels
- CO2 fixation
- drug delivery
- heterogeneous catalysis
- organocatalysis
- surface functionalization
