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Kosuke Sato1, Yuya Oaki, Hiroaki Imai
1Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan. oakiyuya@applc.keio.ac.jp hiroaki@applc.keio.ac.jp.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|April 11, 2015
Abstract:
The hierarchical porous structures of vinyl polymers, such as polystyrene (PSt) and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), were derived from morphologies of a biomineral through replication. The resultant PSt hierarchical structures showed enhanced adsorption properties of organic molecules as hydrophobic adsorbents in an aqueous medium.
