Systematic Tuning and Multifunctionalization of Covalent Organic Polymers for Enhanced Carbon Capture

Systematic Tuning and Multifunctionalization of Covalent Organic Polymers for Enhanced Carbon Capture

Type	Journal Article
Author	Zhonghua Xiang
Author	Rocio Mercado
URL	http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b06266
Volume	137
Issue	41
Pages	13301-13307
Publication	Journal of the American Chemical Society
Date	October 21, 2015
Abstract	Porous covalent polymers are attractive in the fields of gas adsorption, gas separation, and catalysis due to their synthetic polymer chemistry, large internal surface areas, and ultrahigh hydrothermal stabilities. While precisely manipulating the porosities of porous organic materials for targeted applications is a challenge, authors demonstrate how a large degree of diversity can be achieved in covalent organic polymers by incorporating multiple functionalities into a single framework, as is done for crystalline porous materials. Despite significant improvement, these frameworks do not yet outperform the current state-of-art technology for carbon capture. However, the tuning strategy presented here opens up avenues for the design of novel catalysts, the synthesis of functional sensors from these materials, and the improvement in the performance of existing covalent organic polymers by multifunctionalization.