–
in diameter) that persist when the polymer is immersed in solvents or in the dry state.
Notes:
- Macroporous polymers are often network polymers produced in bead form. However, linear polymers can also be prepared in the form of macroporous polymer beads.
- Macroporous polymers swell only slightly in solvents.
- Macroporous polymers are used, for example, as precursors for ion-exchange polymers, as adsorbents, as supports for catalysts or reagents, and as stationary phases in size-exclusion chromatography columns.
- Porous polymers with pore diameters from ca
to
are called mesoporous polymers.
Source:
PAC, 2004, 76, 889
(Definitions of terms relating to reactions of polymers and to functional polymeric
materials (IUPAC Recommendations 2003))
on page 900