Porous polymer

We reviewed polymerization-induced microphase separation
September 10, 2023 / Group News Publication
Our review on the PIMS process, initially developed by Myungeun Seo and Marc Hillmyer in 2012, was published in Progress in Polymer Science to provide a comprehensive information about the field and a practical guide to colleagues interested in PIMS.

Access to 1-nm pore in block polymer-templated porous materials
June 11, 2021 / Group News Publication
"Downsizing of Block Polymer-Templated Nanopores to One Nanometer via Hyper-Cross-Linking of High χ–Low N Precursors" by Jeonghyeon Lee and Myungeun Seo was published in ACS Nano.

Pt nanoparticle-embedded porous polymer support for cross-coupling reaction
April 23, 2021 / Group News Publication
"Nesting Well-Defined Pt Nanoparticles within a Hierarchically Porous Polymer as a Heterogeneous Suzuki–Miyaura Catalyst” was published in ACS Applied Nano Materials.

Heterograft copolymer with a semifluorinated backbone
May 17, 2020 / Group News Publication
“Synthesis of Heterograft Copolymers with a Semifluorinated Backbone by Combination of Grafting-through and Grafting-from Polymerizations” by Jeonghyeon Lee, Gérald Lopez, Bruno Améduri, and Myungeun Seo was published in Macromolecules. Link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.macromol.9b02493

Nanoporous poly(ether sulfone)s from block polymer precursors
October 12, 2019 / Group News Publication
“Nanoporous poly(ether sulfone) from polylactide-b-poly(ether sulfone)-b-polylactide precursor”, Jinhee Lee, Jongmin Park, Jaehoon Oh, Sanghwa Lee, Sang Youl Kim and Myungeun Seo was published in Polymer. Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032386119307104

Trimethylsilyl groups create more space in hyper-cross-linking
January 14, 2019 / Group News Publication
“Hyper-Cross-Linked Polymer with Enhanced Porosity by In Situ Removal of Trimethylsilyl Group via Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution” by Jeonghyeon Lee and Myungeun Seo was published in ACS Macro Letters. This paper was one of Top 20 Most Read Articles in ACS Macro Letters in December 2018. As of January 14, 2019, the paper has been viewed...

Conjugated cross-linkers create microporous voids in vinyl polymer networks
November 9, 2018 / Group News Publication
“Creation of micropores by RAFT copolymerization of conjugated multi-vinyl cross-linkers” by Chinnadurai Satheeshkumar and Myungeun Seo just appeared in Polymer Chemistry.   Link: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2018/py/c8py01198b#!divAbstract  

Hierarchically Porous Polymers Containing Multiscale Porosity
July 10, 2018 / Current Projects
Constructing a hierarchy of pores spanning from micro- (< 2 nm) and meso- (2 - 50 nm) to macroporous (> 50 nm) length scales allows us to synergistically combine large surface area with fast material transport.

Micro-/meso-/macroporous polymer monolith
June 23, 2018 / Group News Publication
“Hyper-cross-linked polymer with controlled multiscale porosity via polymerization-induced microphase separation within high internal phase emulsion” by Jongmin Park, KyuHan Kim and Myungeun Seo just appeared in Chemical Communications.   Link: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2018/cc/c8cc03508c#!divAbstract  

Micro-/mesoporous polymer accelerate adsorption in solution
March 1, 2018 / Group News Publication
“Control of porosity in hierarchically porous polymers derived from hyper-crosslinked block polymer precursors” by Soobin Kim and Myungeun Seo was published in J. Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym. Chem.. Link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pola.28966/abstract