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Porous Polymers: Enabling Solutions for Energy Applications
Author(s) -
Thomas Arne,
Kuhn Pierre,
Weber Jens,
Titirici MariaMagdalena,
Antonietti Markus
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
macromolecular rapid communications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.348
H-Index - 154
eISSN - 1521-3927
pISSN - 1022-1336
DOI - 10.1002/marc.200800642
Subject(s) - polymer , polymerization , materials science , nanotechnology , porosity , energy storage , porous medium , fuel cells , chemical engineering , process engineering , composite material , engineering , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics
A new generation of porous polymers was made for various energy‐related applications, e.g., as fuel cell membranes, as electrode materials for batteries, for gas storage, partly from renewable resources. This review intends to catch this emerging field by reporting on a variety of different approaches to make high performing polymers porous. This includes template techniques, polymers with inherent microporosity, polymer frameworks by ionothermal polymerization, and the polymerization of carbon from appropriate precursors and by hydrothermal polymerization. In this process, we try to not only identify the current status of the field, but also point to open question and tasks to identify the potentially relevant progress.