title: Porous polymers: enabling solutions for energy applications.
abstract: A new generation of porous polymers was made for various energy-related applications, e.g., as fuel cell membranes, as electrode materials for batteries, for gas storage, partly from renewable resources. This review intends to catch this emerging field by reporting on a variety of different approaches to make high performing polymers porous. This includes template techniques, polymers with inherent microporosity, polymer frameworks by ionothermal polymerization, and the polymerization of carbon from appropriate precursors and by hydrothermal polymerization. In this process, we try to not only identify the current status of the field, but also point to open question and tasks to identify the potentially relevant progress.
authors.affiliation: Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Department of Colloid Chemistry, Research Campus Golm, 14424 Potsdam, Germany.
authors.forename: Arne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kuhn
authors.forename: Jens
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.forename: Maria-Magdalena
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Titirici
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Antonietti