Advanced Materials, Vol.18, No.18, 2407-2407, 2006
Rigid macroporous poly(divinylbenzene) monoliths with a well-defined bicontinuous morphology prepared by living radical polymerization
Rigid macroporous poly(divinylbenzene) monoliths with good mechanical and thermal stability and possessing a well-defined bicontinuous structure (see figure) are synthesized using living radical polymerization and a polymeric phase separator. The macropore size and volume can be independently tuned by varying the starting compositions of the mixtures. Scale bars represent 20 m, a-d show increasing polydimethylsiloxane concentration