polymer sorbent

Polymer that adsorbs or absorbs a certain substance or certain substances from a liquid or a gas.
Notes:
  1. A polymer sorbent may be a polymer adsorbent or a polymer absorbent. The former acts by surface sorption and the latter by bulk sorption.
  2. See also: sorption, adsorption, absorption.
Source:
PAC, 2004, 76, 889 (Definitions of terms relating to reactions of polymers and to functional polymeric materials (IUPAC Recommendations 2003)) on page 902