SCIENCE - New method for creating mesoporous materials from industrial polymers

A team of researchers in the Separation Functional Materials Group of the Polymer Materials Unit, Advanced Key Technologies Division, National Institute for Materials Science, succeeded in developing a high-performance oil absorbent by creating a mesoporous material with pores of approximately 10 nm in diameter, using engineering plastics that are widely used as industrial materials ...

http://phys.org/news/2013-12-method-mesoporous-materials-industrial-po