Advanced Materials
Advanced Materials
5 years ago

Stepwise Crosslinking: A Facile Yet Versatile Conceptual Strategy to Nanomorphology-Persistent Porous Organic Polymers

Stepwise Crosslinking: A Facile Yet Versatile Conceptual Strategy to Nanomorphology-Persistent Porous Organic Polymers
Ruowen Fu, Hongyu Yang, Dingcai Wu, Shimei Li, Shaohong Liu, Luyi Chen, Hao Liu, Zhiwei Tang
Both high surface areas and well-orchestrated nanomorphologies are important for porous organic polymers (POPs). However, the two key characteristics are generally difficult to be satisfied simultaneously, because the common pore-making procedures usually produce ill-defined nanomorphologies or give rise to damage of precustomized nanomorphologies. Herein, a facile yet versatile stepwise crosslinking strategy for fabrication of POPs with an unusual nanomorphology-persistent characteristic during pore-making is reported. Polystyrene nanofibers and poly(styrene-co-divinylbenzene) nanosphere arrays are utilized as building blocks, and then transformed into nanofibrillar morphology-persistent and ordered array morphology-persistent POPs via stepwise crosslinking, respectively. The stepwise crosslinking strategy includes pre-crosslinking and hypercrosslinking; the pre-crosslinking in a carefully selected poor solvent of polystyrene forms a lowly crosslinked structure, which guarantees the stability of nanomorphology during the subsequent pore-making via hypercrosslinking. The as-obtained POPs can be used as precursors for novel well-defined hyperporous carbon nanofibers and ordered carbon nanosphere arrays with excellent adsorption performances. Both high surface areas and well-orchestrated morphologies are important but generally difficult to be satisfied simultaneously for porous organic polymers (POPs). A facile yet versatile stepwise crosslinking strategy for fabrication of POPs with an unusual nanomorphology-persistent characteristic during pore-making is reported. The as-obtained POPs are utilized as precursors for novel well-defined hyperporous carbon nanofibers and ordered carbon nanosphere arrays.

Publisher URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi

DOI: 10.1002/adma.201700723

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