Highly Porous Polymeric Materials - the Hole Truth and Nothing But!

Add to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal

• Prof Neil Cameron, University of Durham
• Thursday 18 February 2010, 19:30-20:30
• Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Isabella Stöcker.

Polymeric materials can be fabricated to include very large volumes of empty space, easily greater than 99% of the sample volume. A variety of methods is available to prepare such materials; these methods can roughly be classified as templating or non-templating, depending on whether the precursor system is two- or one-phase at the beginning of the pore-forming process. Depending on the method used, the resulting pores can range in diameter from micropores (< 2nm) to mesopores (2-50 nm) and macropores (> 50 nm). The pores can be highly interconnected, resulting in low density materials (e.g. foams), or discrete, where the pore-forming phase remains rapped within the matrix. This lecture will discuss different approaches to highly porous materials, how the porosity can be investigated and applications of the resulting materials.

This talk is part of the ChemSoc - Cambridge Chemistry Society series.

This talk is included in these lists:

• All Talks (aka the CURE list)
• ChemSoc - Cambridge Chemistry Society
• Featured lists
• Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW

Note that ex-directory lists are not shown.