Functional Microcellular Polymer-Foams through Emulsion-Templated Synthesis
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 8087
Special Issue Editor
Interests: application of the tools of polymer chemistry; production of a variety of porous polymeric materials with desired properties and a high degree of control; emulsion/suspension preparation and stability; development of porous semiconducting, nanocomposites, polyelectrolytes; hierarchical porous carbon foams from these emulsions/suspensions
Special Issue Information
Emulsion-templated microcellular polymer foams are a special kind of porous polymeric material that has been around now for many years. The versatility of these polymer foams stems from their specific morphological features, such as hierarchically structured and three-dimensionally connected morphology, consisting of quasispherical voids that are linked via numerous much smaller circular “holes” referred to as windows. This quite original morphology makes them attractive for a wide range of applications, including cell culturing scaffolds, reagent and catalyst supports, or for ion exchange and environmental remediation.
However, contemporary expectations go beyond just controlling the morphological features of emulsion-templated polymer foams. Advanced applications require multifunctional polymer foams and a fundamental understanding of the relationship between their structure and function. Despite the tremendous progress of the conventional post-polymerization surface functionalization strategies, facile synthetic routes to obtain multifunctional emulsion-templated polymer foams, such as these containing various functional groups and/or nanosized-particles embedded in the pore surfaces, have attracted increasing attention in recent years.
Therefore, the Guest Editor is pleased to launch this Special Issue and invite researchers to contribute their reviews and original papers on the development of multifunctional microcellular polymer foams prepared through emulsion-templated synthesis, as well as on the study of potential new applications for these porous polymers.
Dr. Sebastijan Kovačič
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Emulsion templating
- High-, medium-, low internal phase emulsions
- Porous nanocomposites, hydrogels, or carbons
- Hierarchical porous polymers
- PolyHIPEs
- Polymer chemistry
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