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SUMMARY:Highly Porous Polymeric Materials - the Hole Truth and Nothing But
 ! - Prof Neil Cameron\, University of Durham
DTSTART:20100218T193000Z
DTEND:20100218T203000Z
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CONTACT:Isabella Stöcker
DESCRIPTION:Polymeric materials can be fabricated to include very large vo
 lumes of empty space\, easily greater than 99% of the sample volume. A var
 iety of methods is available to prepare such materials\; these methods can
  roughly be classified as templating or non-templating\, depending on whet
 her 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 r
 ange in diameter from micropores (< 2nm) to mesopores (2-50 nm) and macrop
 ores (> 50 nm). The pores can be highly interconnected\, resulting in low 
 density materials (e.g. foams)\, or discrete\, where the pore-forming phas
 e remains rapped within the matrix. This lecture will discuss different ap
 proaches to highly porous materials\, how the porosity can be investigated
  and applications of the resulting materials.
LOCATION:Wolfson Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry\, Lensfield Rd\
 , CB2 1EW
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