Photoinduced post-modification of graphitic carbon nitride-embedded hydrogels: synthesis of 'hydrophobic hydrogels' and pore substructuring

• Cansu Esen and
• Baris Kumru

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1323–1334, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.92

• manufacture functional soft materials will be of high interest in near future by the means of catalysis and agricultural delivery. Keywords: hydrophobic hydrogel; photoactive hydrogels; photomodification; pore modification; soft materials; Introduction Popularity of hydrogels arises from their structural

• have been investigated in detail in literature [37][50]. Inspired by these, we now attempt to conduct a pore modification on g-CN-embedded hydrogels by visible-light-induced reaction. HGCM was a host network and the variety of monomers were swollen in the network, polymerized, and purified (Scheme 3

• the arbitrary photopolymerization process. In addition, we were not able to identify free polymer chains during the purification process, which indicates a covalent growth of polymers on a hydrogel host. It is expected that pore modification on networks will influence the thermal stability of the