High surface area amorphous microporous poly(aryleneethynylene) networks using tetrahedral carbon- and silicon-centred monomers

Ev Stöckel; Xiaofeng Wu; Abbie Trewin; Colin D Wood; Rob Clowes; Neil L Campbell; James T A Jones; Yaroslav Z Khimyak; Dave J Adams; Andrew I Cooper

doi:10.1039/b815044c

High surface area amorphous microporous poly(aryleneethynylene) networks using tetrahedral carbon- and silicon-centred monomers

Chem Commun (Camb). 2009 Jan 8:(2):212-4. doi: 10.1039/b815044c. Epub 2008 Nov 14.

Authors

Ev Stöckel¹, Xiaofeng Wu, Abbie Trewin, Colin D Wood, Rob Clowes, Neil L Campbell, James T A Jones, Yaroslav Z Khimyak, Dave J Adams, Andrew I Cooper

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and Centre for Materials Discovery, Crown Street, Liverpool, UK L69 7ZD.

PMID: 19099072
DOI: 10.1039/b815044c

Abstract

Poly(aryleneethynylene) networks prepared from tetrahedral monomers are highly microporous and exhibit apparent Brunauer-Emmett-Teller surface areas of up to 1213 m2 g(-1).