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Fibers with Hyper‐Crosslinked Functional Porous Frameworks
Author(s) -
Sheng Yujie,
Chen Qibin,
Mahurin Shan M.,
Mayes Richard T.,
Zhan Wangchen,
Zhang Jinshui,
Liu Honglai,
Dai Sheng
Publication year - 2018
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.201700767
Subject(s) - materials science , monomer , porosity , nanoporous , polymer , surface modification , grafting , covalent bond , nanopore , fiber , fabrication , nanotechnology , chemical engineering , composite material , chemistry , organic chemistry , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , engineering
The incorporation of robust porous frameworks into polymer fibers with handleable morphologies and flexible chemical compositions exhibits significant advantages for device fabrication in a wide range of applications. However, the soft linear polymeric chains of the fibers make the generation of nanopores extremely challenging. Herein, a facile synthetic strategy based on a combination of functional monomer grafting and hyper‐crosslinking technology is developed for the porous engineering of polymeric fibers. In this methodology, the nanoporous framework originating from the hyper‐crosslinking of aromatic monomers is covalently grafted onto fibers, which is beneficial to retaining their unique fiber morphology and to preserving their excellent mechanical properties. Moreover, this promising protocol can be further extended to the porous functionalization of polymeric matrices with diverse morphologies for target‐specific applications.