Abstract
Organic micropollutants have become serious threats to human health and the environment over the past years. Novel materials and technologies are urgently needed to remove environmental contaminants. Herein, spirobifluorene (SBF) and triptycene (TP) were crosslinked to produce four hierarchically porous organic polymers (NHCPs). The twisted spatial structures of the monomers endow the NHCPs with high surface areas and abundant pores, which make them suitable for removal of pollutants in aqueous solution through adsorption. According to the results from adsorption experiments, the NHCPs exhibited high removal efficiency and adsorption capacities for pollutants in solution. Particularly, NHCP-3 could remove 99.4% of bisphenol A (BPA) in a few seconds with a maximum adsorption capacity of 562 mg g−1. Furthermore, the NHCPs could be easily recovered by immersion in ethanol and recycled at least five times without a loss in efficiency.
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