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  3. LABORATORY FOR ORGANIC AND POLYMER CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY
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Research activity

RESEARCH FIELDS

Functional polymers generated with hierarchical porosity

  • Synthesis of new functional polymers in heterogeneous media – suspension, emulsion with a high volume fraction continous phase (HIPE).
  • Potopolymerisation with chain transfer mechanism and the thiol-ene click polymerisation.
  • Using metathesis ring opening polymerisation (Romp) for preparation of cross-linked polyolefin structures.
  • Creating hierarchical porosity by post polymerisation processes – hipercrosslinking.
  • Polymer reactors and polymer scafolds and combinatorial chemistry.

Preparation of new granular and monolithic polymers for applications in synthetic and analytical chemistry to systematically search API with the methods of combinatorial chemistry, and chromatography

  • Studying the properties of new polymer materials with scanning electron microscopy methods, FT-infrared spectroscopy, mercury and nitrogen porosimetry.
  • Synthetic organic chemistry to solid-phase using polymeric supports for structural synthesis of analog compounds and the binding of the excess reactants from the reaction mixture under the conditions of flow techniques.

Biodegradable and biocompatible polymers

  • Synthesis of porous polymers based on acrylates and polysaccharides with thiol-ene chemistry for applications in tissue engineering and tissue culture.
  • Synthesis of porous cross-linked polymers of acrylic acid and acrylamide.
  • Polymeric porous membranes

Studying the mechanisms of formation of various polymeric asymmetric porous membranes prepared by phase inversion

  • Using the areas of various types of separation or separation: medicine (artificial kidney, blood oxygenation) technology in waste and drinking water separations in biotechnology and the chemical-pharmaceutical industry, etc..
  • Chemical surface modification of polymeric asymmetric porous membranes.
  • Porous polymeric membranes of emulsions with a high fraction volume of internal phase.

SELECTED PAPERS

INDEPENDENT SCIENTIFIC COMPONENT PART OR A CHAPTER IN A MONOGRAPH

CAMERON, Neil R., KRAJNC, Peter, SILVERSTEIN, Michael S. Colloidal templating. V: SILVERSTEIN, Michael S. (ur.), CAMERON, Neil R. (ur.), HILLMYER, Marc A. (ur.). Porous polymers. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, cop. 2011, str. 119-172. [COBISS.SI-ID 14753302]

REVIEW

PULKO, Irena, KRAJNC, Peter. High internal phase emulsion templating – a path to hierarchically porous functional polymers. Macromol. rapid commun., 26. Oct. 2012, vol. 33, iss. 20, str. 1731-1746.

ORIGINAL SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE

PODGORNIK, Aleš, SMREKAR, Vida, KRAJNC, Peter, ŠTRANCAR, Aleš. Estimation of methacrylate monolith binding capacity from pressure drop data. J. chromatogr., A, 11. Jan. 2013, vol. 1272, str. 50-55 KOVAČIČ, Sebastijan, MATSKO, Nadejda B., JEŘÁBEK, Karel, KRAJNC, Peter, SLUGOVC, Christian. On the mechanical properties of HIPE templated macroporous poly(dicyclopentadiene) prepared with low surfactant amounts. J. mater. chem. A (Print). [Print ed.], 2013, vol. 1, iss. 3, str. 487-490 TURNŠEK, Marko, KRAJNC, Peter. PolyHIPEs from divinyl adipate : preparation and degradability. Macromol. chem. phys., Article first published online: 16 AUG 2013 KOVAČIČ, Sebastijan, KREN, Harald, KRAJNC, Peter, KOLLER, Stefan, SLUGOVC, Christian. The use of an emulsion templated microcellular poly(dicyclopentadiene-co-norbornene) membrane as a separator in Lithium-ion batteries. Macromol. rapid commun., 12. Apr. 2013, vol. 34, iss. 7, str. 581-587 SUŠEC, Maja, LIGON, Samuel Clark, STAMPFL, Jürgen, LISKA, Robert, KRAJNC, Peter. Hierarchically porous materials from layer-by-layer photopolymerization of high internal phase emulsions. Macromol. rapid commun., June 13, 2013, vol. 34, iss. 11, str. 938-943 SEVŠEK, Urška, BRUS, Jiří, JEŘÁBEK, Karel, KRAJNC, Peter. Post polymerisation hypercrosslinking of styrene/divinylbenzene poly(HIPE)s : creating micropores within macroporous polymer. Polymer (Guildf.). [Print ed.], Available online 20 September 2013 PALJEVAC, Muzafera, JEŘÁBEK, Karel, KRAJNC, Peter. Crosslinked poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) by emulsion templating : influence of crosslinker on microcellular structure. Journal of polymers and the environment, Dec. 2012, vol. 20, iss. 4, str. 1095-1102 KOVAČIČ, Sebastijan, JEŘÁBEK, Karel, KRAJNC, Peter, SLUGOVC, Christian. Ring opening metathesis polymerisation of emulsion templated dicyclopentadiene giving open porous materials with excellent mechanical properties.Polymer chemistry. [Print ed.], Feb. 2012, vol. 3, iss. 2, str. 325-328 SEVŠEK, Urška, KRAJNC, Peter. Methacrylic acid microcellular highly porous monoliths : preparation and functionalisation. React. funct. polym.. [Print ed.], Jan. 2012, vol. 72, iss. 1, str. 221-226 KOVAČIČ, Sebastijan, FERK, Gregor, DROFENIK, Mihael, KRAJNC, Peter. Nanocomposite polyHIPEs with magnetic nanoparticles : preparation and heating effect. React. funct. polym.. [Print ed.], Dec. 2012, vol. 72, iss. 12, str. 955-961 PULKO, Irena, SMREKAR, Vida, PODGORNIK, Aleš, KRAJNC, Peter. Emulsion templated open porous membranes for protein purification. J. chromatogr., A, 2011, vol. 1218, iss. 17, str. 2396-2401 KOVAČIČ, Sebastijan, JEŘÁBEK, Karel, KRAJNC, Peter. Responsive poly(acrylic acid) and poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) monoliths by high internal phase emulsion (HIPE) templating. Macromol. chem. phys., 2011, vol. 212, iss. 19, str. 2151-2158 SEVŠEK, Urška, SEIFRIED, Silvo, STROPNIK, Črtomir, PULKO, Irena, KRAJNC, Peter. Poly(styrene-co-divinylbenzene-co-2-ethylhexyl)acrilate membranes with interconnected macroporous structure = Poli(stiren-ko-divinilbenzen-ko-2-etilheksil)akrilatne membrane s povezano porozno strukturo. Mater. tehnol., 2011, letn. 45, št. 3, str. 247-251. KOVAČIČ, Sebastijan, KRAJNC, Peter, SLUGOVC, Christian. Inherently reactive polyHIPE material from dicyclopentadiene. Chem. commun. (Lond., 1996), 2010, vol. 46, issue 40, str. 7504-7506 PULKO, Irena, WALL, Jennifer, KRAJNC, Peter, CAMERON, Neil R. Ultra-high surface area functional porous polymers by emulsion templating and hypercrosslinking : efficient nucleophilic catalyst supports. Chemistry (Weinh., Print). [Print ed.], Feb. 2010, vol. 16, iss. 8, str. 2350-2354 MAJER, Janja, KRAJNC, Peter. Amine functionalisations of glycidyl methacrylate based polyHIPE monoliths. Macromol. symp., Oct. 2010, vol. 296, iss. 1, str. 5-10 PULKO, Irena, SANDHOLZER, Martina, KOLAR, Mitja, SLUGOVC, Christian, KRAJNC, Peter. Removal of an olefin metathesis catalyst using 4-nitrophenyl acrylate based polymer supports. Tetrahedron lett.. [Print ed.], 2010, vol. 51, issue 44, str. 5827-5829

COOPERATION WITH OTHER INSTITUTIONS AND COMPANIES

  • B.I.A. Separations d.o.o., Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • University of Durham, Department of Chemistry, UK
  • University of Ljubljani, Faculty of chemistry and chemical tehnology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, Czech Academy of Science, Praga, Czech republic
  • Graz University of Technology,  Institute for Chemistry and Technology of organic Materials, Graz, Austria
  • Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry, Vienna, Austria
  • Yalova University, Faculty of Engineering, Polymer Engineering Department, Yalova, Turkey
  • Drexel University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Philadelphia, USA
  • Centre of excellence PoliMaT, Ljubljana, Slovenia