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Ethylene and phenylene bridged polysilsesquioxanes functionalized by amine and thiol groups as adsorbents of volatile organic compounds

“…Despite that there are only a few papers in the literature describing the potential use of polysilsesquioxane adsorbents. They were extensively probed as adsorbents of different metal from aqueous solutions [9][10][11][12], phenols [13] or DDT [14] but to our best knowledge there have been no attempts to probe these materials as adsorbent of organic compounds from the gas phase. Here, we describe a synthesis of mesoporous polysilsesquioxane xerogels and their application as sorbent materials for the uptake of selected organic compounds from the gas phase.…”