Synthesis of covalently linked porous polymers with high surface area and larger pore volume for two or more task-specific functionalities is always a big challenge. In this article, the facile Friedel-Crafts reaction is employed to construct the hierarchical hybrid porous polymers (HPPs) from tetraphenyladamantane and octavinylsilsesquioxane. The resulting polymers, HPP-1 to HPP-3, possessed the surface areas from 1356 to 1511 m 2 g −1 , and the pore volumes from 2.05 to 2.67 cm 3 g −1 . All these polymers feature micropores, mesopores, and macropores in nature. The resultant polymers exhibit high CO 2 adsorption capacity up to 2.0 mmol g −1 (8.82 wt %), at 273 K, 1.0 bar, and the maximum Rhodamine B (RB) sorption capacity of 653.6 mg g −1 . To illustrate the adsorption process, the effects of factors, contact time, initial concentration, temperature, and pH value on the adsorption capacity of RB were studied. The adsorption equilibrium data displayed a better fitting to the Langmuir isotherm model than the Freundlich model and the adsorption kinetics fitted well with the pseudo-second-order kinetic model. The recycle experiments displayed that the capacity recovery was still higher than 95% after four cycles. Theses polymers are promising to be the adsorbents for capturing CO 2 and removing RB.
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