Porous organic cages: Soluble, modular and molecular pores

Nature Reviews Materials

Volumn 1, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Hasell, Tom ^a   Cooper, Andrew I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; ORGANOMETALLICS;

CO-CRYSTALLIZATIONS; METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK; MOLECULAR MATERIALS; MOLECULAR PORES; NETWORK POLYMERS; POROUS SOLIDS; SOLUTION-PROCESSING; UNIQUE FEATURES;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 85019446705     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20588437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/natrevmats.2016.53     Document Type: Review

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