Porous and Coordination Polymers

13 POROUS POLYMERS AS ADSORBENTS 6.13.1 Porous and Coordination Polymers 

We are interested in highly cross-linked, permanently porous polymers. These materials have a permanent porous structure, produced during their synthesis and preserved in the dry state, and are employed in a wide variety of applications as adsorbents [90,223-230], 

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Ordered mesoporous polymers have been produced by filling with divinylbenzene, ethyleneglycol dimethacrylate, or a mixture of the two the pores of a colloidal crystal are formed by silica spheres of 35 nm of diameter. Thereafter, the polymerization and subsequent dissolution of the silica template leave a polycrystalline network of interconnected pores [235], 

In addition, the polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs), such as phthalocyanine networks and the Co phthalocyanine network-PIM (CoPc20), display high specific surface area, as confirmed by the N2 adsorption isotherm at 77 K, and by the adsorption of small organic probe molecules from aqueous solutions at 298 K [236], This material is basically microporous with an increased concentration of effective nanopores. 

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