Royal Society of Chemistry, Journal of Materials Chemistry A: materials for energy and sustainability, 6(3), p. 3006-3010
DOI: 10.1039/c4ta05727a
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Two highly porous and semiconducting pyrene-quinoxaline-derived benzimidazole-linked polymers have been synthesized and fully characterized. The polymers have high surface area (SABET = ~950 m2 g-1) while their electronic structure studies reveal bandgaps in the semiconducting range (2.02 and 2.16 eV) and emissions in the orange-red region (600 and 630 nm). The high surface area and optical properties make these polymers very interesting for gas storage, optoelectronics, and sensing applications.