A triptycene-based polymer of intrinsic microposity that displays enhanced surface area and hydrogen adsorption

Bader S Ghanem; Kadhum J Msayib; Neil B McKeown; Kenneth D M Harris; Zhigang Pan; Peter M Budd; Anna Butler; James Selbie; David Book; Allan Walton

doi:10.1039/b614214a

A triptycene-based polymer of intrinsic microposity that displays enhanced surface area and hydrogen adsorption

Chem Commun (Camb). 2007 Jan 7:(1):67-9. doi: 10.1039/b614214a. Epub 2006 Nov 15.

Authors

Bader S Ghanem¹, Kadhum J Msayib, Neil B McKeown, Kenneth D M Harris, Zhigang Pan, Peter M Budd, Anna Butler, James Selbie, David Book, Allan Walton

Affiliation

¹ School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK CF10 3AT.

PMID: 17279263
DOI: 10.1039/b614214a

Abstract

A novel triptycene-based polymer of intrinsic microporosity (Trip-PIM) displays enhanced surface area (1065 m2 g(-1)) and reversibly adsorbs 1.65% hydrogen by mass at 1 bar/77 K and 2.71% at 10 bar/77 K.