Porous Organic Polymers (POPs)—Synthesis, Design, Structural Characterization and Application

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 physiochemical properties, good thermal stability, large surface areas (up to an admirable 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, adsorption analysis) and application (gas adsorption, energy storage, sensors, catalysis).

Dr. Tomislav Balić
Dr. Ivica Đilović
Guest Editors

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