Microporous organic polymers for methane storage

Wood, Colin D. and Tan, Bien and Trewin, Abbie and Su, Fabing and Rosseinsky, Matthew J. and Bradshaw, Darren and Sun, Yan and Zhou, Li and Cooper, Andrew I. (2008) Microporous organic polymers for methane storage. Advanced Materials, 20 (10). pp. 1916-1921. ISSN 0935-9648

Abstract

Methane storage is important for the development of alternative energy carriers. The synthesis and methane storage properties of microporous hypercrosslinked organic polymers are reported. The figure shows a simulation of methane sorption in microporous hypercrosslinked poly(p-dichloroxylene); up to 5.2 mmol g(-1]) CH4 at 20 bar/298 K; isosteric heat of sorption similar to 21 kJ mol(-1).