Regeneration of nanoporous crystalline syndiotactic polystyrene by supercritical CO2

Guest desorption procedures for s-PS clathrate samples, leading to formation and regeneration of the nanoporous δ phase, are compared. An extraction procedure, based on supercritical carbon dioxide, allows an easy and fast recovery of the guest molecules operating under relatively mild conditions (90–200 bar, 40°C) and generates a completely empty δ form, also starting from the most stable s-PS clathrate forms. In agreement with a previously proposed crystal structure of the nanoporous δ form, X-ray diffraction patterns of δ form powders obtained by this procedure do not show the peak, which is reduced but still apparent in samples extracted with previous procedures based on boiling solvents. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 74: 2077–2082, 1999

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