Functional materials: from hard to soft porous frameworks.
This Review aims to give an overview of recent research in the area of porous, organic-inorganic and purely organic, functional materials. Possibilities for introducing organic groups that exhibit chemical and/or physical functions into porous materials will be described, with a focus on the incorporation of such functional groups as a supporting part of the pore walls. The number of organic groups in the network can be increased such that porous, purely organic materials are obtained.
Thomas
Arne
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Institute of Chemistry: Functional Materials, Technische Universität Berlin, Englische Strasse 20, 10587 Berlin, Germany. arne.thomas@tu-berlin.de