Emulsion and Foam Templating—Promising Routes to Tailor‐Made Porous Polymers |
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| Authors: | Prof?Dr Cosima Stubenrauch Dr Angelika Menner Prof Alexander Bismarck Dr Wiebke Drenckhan |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany;2. Polymer & Composite Engineering (PaCE) Group, Institute of Materials Chemistry & Research, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria;3. Polymer & Composite Engineering (PaCE) Group, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College, London, UK;4. Institut Charles Sadron, CNRS, Strasbourg, France |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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| Keywords: | emulsions foams liquid templating routes macroporous polymers structure– property relations |
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