None other than Rahul @banerjee_r is now up taking stage for COFs industry prospect. He was asked to deliver cheaper and more stable porous materials than zeolites! #POLYMATsptl 
Rahul takes on long standing challenges in COFs, one by one. First is the stability. #POLYMATsptl
Salt mediated synthesis may be able to speed up synthesis, addressing the kinetics of synthesis for scalability, another big challenge for COFs #POLYMATsptl
Acids of moderate pKa are ideal to present optimal distance of amine linkers and therefore facilitating crystal formation #POLYMATsptl (the data in this slide took one year!)
Para toluene sulfonic acid is like magical additive to make everything a lot more porous! #POLYMATsptl
Fabrication of COFs are now possible despite the small loss in crystallinity says @banerjee_r and the stability is unmatched #POLYMATsptl
Porous crystals membranes is technically very challenging. Interfacial polymerization may help! #POLYMATsptl
Knife casting produced large area COF membranes. And the best thing is there’re no binders used! #POLYMATsptl
Rahul @banerjee_r ends with thanks to @CrystEngComm for travel funding and @AvHStiftung for his visit to Thomas Bein at LMU. He also hopes that more collaborations would emerge, particularly in the areas that covalent organic solids finds wide use in the industry #POLYMATsptl
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