Porous Organic Polymers (POPs)—Synthesis, Design, Structural Characterization and Application, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Chemistry".
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Porous organic polymers (POPs) represent a group of organic macromolecular materials built from organic precursors connected by strong covalent bonds into a porous framework. There are several subclasses of POP materials—COFs (covalent organic frameworks), PAFs (porous aromatic frameworks), CMPs (conjugated microporous polymers), HCPs (hypercrosslinked polymers), and others. These materials are characterized by excellent physicochemical properties, good thermal stability, large surface areas (up to 4300 m2 g−1), and designable pore size and pore characteristics. Such remarkable properties have attracted substantial interest in the scientific community and highlighted these materials for potential application in adsorption and separation, carbon sequestration, catalysis, energy storage, etc.
Within this Special Issue of Polymers, we aim to collect novel results and potential applications in this emerging field of porous materials. We invite you to report the latest advances in the form of full papers, communications, and review articles. Potential topics for this Special Issue include the synthesis, design, and functionalization of POPs (preparation and design of novel monomeric precursors, mechanochemical synthesis, imine-based polymeric materials, post-synthetic modifications); characterization (spectroscopy, thermal analysis, molecular modeling, and adsorption analysis); and application (gas adsorption, energy storage, sensors, and catalysis).
Dr. Tomislav Balić
Dr. Ivica Đilović
Dr. Martina Medvidović-Kosanović
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- POPs
- porous materials
- coordination polymers
- imine macrocycles
- covalent organic frameworks
- gas adsorption
- energy storage
- sensors
- catalysis
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