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SUMMARY:Dr Mariolino Carta: Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity (PIMs)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nPolymers of Intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) are materi
 als whose porosity is induced by the inefficient packing of their long cha
 ins in the solid state\, which leaves pores of nano-dimension. They provid
 e advantages over similar polymers as they are composed of only light elem
 ents such as C\, H\, N\, O. Their high BET surface areas make them suitabl
 e for application as gas storage and gas separation.1 Particular emphasis 
 is placed on the functionalisation of organic monomers to introduce a site
  of contortion\, an essential characteristic to induce microporosity\, and
  on the development of novel synthetic procedures for the preparation PIMs
  to be used for high performing membranes for gas separation and purificat
 ion. Recently\, the very challenging quest for new selective membranes wit
 h enhanced gas separation performance\, led us to the design and synthesis
  of a brand-new class of polymers based on the formation of Tröger’s ba
 se units.2 The improvement of the performance of PIMs can be enhanced by p
 reparation of novel Mixed Matrix Membranes (MMMs)\, which are new material
 s that link the use of organic polymeric supports (our polymeric materials
 ) to the inorganic nature of MOFs or other additives. Along with the work 
 on gas separation\, in the past few years\, we started extending the range
  of applications for PIMs. For instance\, in collaboration with other exce
 llent research groups\, we exploited our polymers in different scientific 
 fields such as catalysis\,3 ionic diodes4\, and highly conductive anionic 
 exchange membranes.5\n(1)     Rose\, I.\; Bezzu\, C. G.\; Carta\, M.\;
  Comesana-Gandara\, B.\; Lasseuguette\, E.\; Ferrari\, M. C.\; Bernardo\, 
 P.\; Clarizia\, G.\; Fuoco\, A.\; Jansen\, J. C.et al. Polymer ultrapermea
 bility from the inefficient packing of 2D chains. Nature Materials 2017\, 
 16 (9)\, 932.\n(2)     Carta\, M.\; Malpass-Evans\, R.\; Croad\, M.\; 
 Rogan\, Y.\; Jansen\, J. C.\; Bernardo\, P.\; Bazzarelli\, F.\; McKeown\, 
 N. B. An Efficient Polymer Molecular Sieve for Membrane Gas Separations. S
 cience (Washington\, DC\, U. S.) 2013\, 339 (6117)\, 303.\n(3)     Car
 ta\, M.\; Croad\, M.\; Bugler\, K.\; Msayib\, K. J.\; McKeown\, N. B. Hete
 rogeneous organocatalysts composed of microporous polymer networks assembl
 ed by Troger’s base formation. Polym. Chem. 2014\, 5 (18)\, 5262.\n(4) 
     Madrid\, E.\; Rong\, Y.\; Carta\, M.\; McKeown\, N. B.\; Malpass-Ev
 ans\, R.\; Attard\, G. A.\; Clarke\, T. J.\; Taylor\, S. H.\; Long\, Y.-T.
 \; Marken\, F. Metastable Ionic Diodes Derived from an Amine-Based Polymer
  of Intrinsic Microporosity. Angew. Chem.\, Int. Ed. 2014\, 53 (40)\, 1075
 1.\n(5)     Yang\, Z.\; Guo\, R.\; Malpass-Evans\, R.\; Carta\, M.\; M
 cKeown\, N. B.\; Guiver\, M. D.\; Wu\, L.\; Xu\, T. Highly Conductive Anio
 n-Exchange Membranes from Microporous Tröger’s Base Polymers. Angewandt
 e Chemie International Edition 2016\, 55 (38)\, 11499.\n \nBiography\nDr 
 Mariolino Carta received his Master’s degree in Organic Chemistry in Ita
 ly in 2004\, working on pharmaceutical active compounds (PNAs). In 2005\, 
 he moved to Cardiff University to do a PhD in Organic Material Chemistry. 
 After completing the PhD in 2008\, he held a PDRA position in Cardiff unti
 l 2014\, when he moved to the University of Edinburgh for another PDRA pos
 ition. In October 2017\, Dr Carta has been appointed as Lecturer in Chemis
 try at Swansea University. To date he has published over 70 scientific out
 puts including peer-reviewed papers\, patents\, conference proceedings and
  chapters.  These outputs have been cited over 1500 times\, which yield a
 n h-Index of 22. (Scopus). Dr Carta is a Fellow of the Higher Education Ac
 ademy (HEA)\, a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC) and a STEM
  Ambassador. He contributed to very successful multi-million\, multi-disci
 plinary consortia such as the EPSRC Supergen XIV (http://www.st-andrews.ac
 .uk/supergen/project/)\, which aimed to the technological advancement in t
 he production and delivery hydrogen as a sustainable fuel\, the EU consort
 ium M4CO2 (http://www.m4co2.eu/)\, a large group which involved 16 partner
 s from 8 European countries\, designed to improve the performance of gas s
 eparation membranes by means of Metal Organic Framework (MOFs) based Mixed
  Matrix Membranes (MMMs) and the EPSRC funded multi-disciplinary consortiu
 m SynFabFun (https://research.ncl.ac.uk/synfabfun/) which ambitions are to
  stabilise membrane performance towards physical ageing.
URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/98343/dr-mariolino-carta-polymers-of-
 intrinsic-microporosity-pims/
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