Porous Organic Polymeric Materials: Design, Synthesis and Applications
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Analysis and Characterization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 1113
Special Issue Editors
Interests: porous organic materials (POMs); adsorption and separation; energy storage and conversion; photoelectrocatalysis; ionic liquids
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Dear Colleagues,
Learning from nature to benefit mankind is an important task for scientists. Porous materials are materials with pores (cavities, channels or interstices). The characteristics of a porous material vary depending on the size, arrangement and shape of the pores, as well as the porosity (the ratio of the total pore volume relative to the apparent volume of the material) and composition of the material itself. Porous materials are inherent to different-scale natural processes, from macroscopic honeycomb, which is considered to be the “magnum opus” of honeybees, to ion channels of bio-membrane which regulate various inorganic ions’ transportation across the cell membrane. Inspired by fascinating pores with unique biological functions in nature, artificial porous materials have attracted much attention over the past few decades. Inorganic porous materials (such as molecular sieves), organic–inorganic hybrid porous materials (such as MOFs) have been successfully prepared. In recent years, porous organic polymeric materials, including, but not limited to, hyper-cross-linked polymers (HCPs), polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs), conjugated microporous polymers (CMPs), covalent organic frameworks (COFs) and porous aromatic frameworks (PAFs), have been well developed. Due to the diverse compositions and structures, ease of functionalization and tunable pore topologies, porous organic polymeric materials have been considered as potentially superior candidates for a wide variety of applications, such as adsorption and separation, filtration, catalysis, energy storage and conversion, mass transportation, drug delivery, etc.
This Special Issue aims to gather scientific papers on significant breakthroughs in the field of porous organic polymeric materials. We welcome papers discussing design and synthesis strategies with an emphasis on topology, deep insight into chemical synthesis, structure–function correlation, state-of-the-art applications, or any other relevant issues. We expect that these joint endeavors will provide insightful guidelines for the advancement of porous organic polymeric materials.
Prof. Dr. Yan’an Gao
Dr. Linlin Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- porous organic polymers
- structure–function correlation
- topology
- design and synthesis
- porous materials
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