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Emulsion and Foam Templating—Promising Routes to Tailor‐Made Porous Polymers
Author(s) -
Stubenrauch Cosima,
Menner Angelika,
Bismarck Alexander,
Drenckhan Wiebke
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201801466
Subject(s) - polymer , materials science , template , dispersity , porosity , emulsion , nanotechnology , porous medium , polymer science , chemical engineering , composite material , polymer chemistry , engineering
Emulsions, foams, and foamed emulsions have been used successfully as templates for the synthesis of macroporous polymers. Based on this knowledge this Minireview presents strategies to use, optimise, and upscale these templating methods to synthesise tailor‐made porous polymers. The uniqueness of such polymers lies in the ability to tailor their structures and, therefore, their properties. However, systematic studies on structure–property relations are lacking mainly because the templating scientific community is “split into two”: the polydisperse and monodisperse camps. Thus, it is time to build a bridge between the camps, that is, to synthesise porous polymers with very different structures from the same precursors to determine the relationship between the structure and the properties.