PolyHIPEs: Recent advances in emulsion-templated porous polymers

MS Silverstein - Progress in Polymer Science, 2014 - Elsevier
Porous polymers with well-defined porosities and high specific surface areas in the form of
monoliths, films, and beads are being used in a wide range of applications (reaction …

Emulsion-templated porous polymers: A retrospective perspective

MS Silverstein - Polymer, 2014 - Elsevier
PolyHIPEs are porous emulsion-templated polymers synthesized within high internal phase
emulsions (HIPEs). HIPEs are highly viscous, paste-like emulsions in which the …

High internal phase emulsion templating–a path to hierarchically porous functional polymers

I Pulko, P Krajnc - Macromolecular rapid communications, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, a series of new monomers and polymerization mechanisms has been applied to
the templating of high internal phase emulsions (HIPEs) providing a route to hierarchically …

Heterolayered, one-dimensional nanobuilding block mat batteries

KH Choi, SJ Cho, SJ Chun, JT Yoo, CK Lee, W Kim… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The rapidly approaching smart/wearable energy era necessitates advanced rechargeable
power sources with reliable electrochemical properties and versatile form factors. Here, as a …

Superabsorbent, high porosity, PAMPS‐based hydrogels through emulsion templating

S Kovačič, MS Silverstein - Macromolecular rapid …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Swell! Superabsorbent, mechanically robust, high‐porosity hydrogels based on poly (2‐
acrylamido‐2‐methyl‐1‐propanesulfonic acid) have been successfully synthesized by …

High porosity, responsive hydrogel copolymers from emulsion templating

M Ovadia, MS Silverstein - Polymer International, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels, three‐dimensional hydrophilic polymer network structures, can absorb many
times their dry weight in water. PolyHIPEs are highly porous polymers synthesized within …

Highly porous cationic polyelectrolytes via oil-in-water concentrated emulsions: synthesis and adsorption kinetic study

S Kovačič, N Drašinac, A Pintar, E Žagar - Langmuir, 2018 - ACS Publications
This work merges the fields of highly porous polymers (polymerized high internal phase
emulsions, polyHIPEs) and synthetic cationic polyelectrolytes and introduces a new …

Ring opening metathesis polymerisation of emulsion templated dicyclopentadiene giving open porous materials with excellent mechanical properties

S Kovačič, K Jeřábek, P Krajnc, C Slugovc - Polymer Chemistry, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Surfactant stabilized emulsions of dicyclopentadiene and 50%, 60%, 70% or 80% of water
were cured using ring opening metathesis polymerisation. All formulations gave open …

Doubly-crosslinked, emulsion-templated hydrogels through reversible metal coordination

T Zhang, MS Silverstein - Polymer, 2017 - Elsevier
Double crosslinking can be used to significantly improve the mechanical properties of gels.
Here, doubly-crosslinked hydrogel polyHIPEs (DC-PHs), which exhibited rapid water …

Macroporous scaffolds of cross-linked Poly (ɛ-caprolactone) via high internal phase emulsion templating

A Yadav, J Pal, B Nandan, RK Srivastava - Polymer, 2019 - Elsevier
A high internal phase emulsion based ring-opening polymerization (HIPE-ROP) of ɛ-
caprolactone (CL) was conducted to fabricate macroporous scaffold in a single-step. An oil …