Fibers with Hyper-Crosslinked Functional Porous Frameworks

Yujie Sheng, Qibin Chen, Shannon M. Mahurin, Richard T. Mayes, Wangchen Zhan, Jinshui Zhang, Honglai Liu, Sheng Dai

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1700767
JournalMacromolecular Rapid Communications
Volume39
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2018

Funding

J.Z. appreciates the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1662112). Y.S. thanked the support of the China Scholar Council (201606740063). S.M.M., R.T.M., J.Z., and S.D. were sponsored by the Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, US Department of Energy.

FundersFunder number
China Scholar Council201606740063
Office of Basic Energy Sciences
US Department of Energy
Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division
National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaU1662112

    Keywords

    • hyper-crosslinking
    • monomer grafting
    • polymeric fibers
    • porous frameworks

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