polymer sorbent

https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.PT07190
Polymer that adsorbs or absorbs a certain substance or certain substances from a liquid or a gas.
Note:
A polymer sorbent may be a polymer @A00153@ or a polymer absorbent. The former acts by surface sorption and the latter by bulk sorption.
See also:
sorption (in colloid chemistry)
,
adsorption
,
absorption
Source:
PAC, 2004, 76, 889. (Definitions of terms relating to reactions of polymers and to functional polymeric materials (IUPAC Recommendations 2003)) on page 902 [Terms] [Paper]