As a class of high-performance polymers

imide-based porous polymer materials were widely used in many areas such as aerospace

microelectronics

membrane materials

optoelectronic materials

catalysis

biomedicine

sensors

gas storage and seperation. Among them

porous polymers containing imide subunits have attracted much attention in recent years

especially the crystalline porous polyimides. Different from conventional synthesis of porous polyimide by the imidation reaction between aromatic polyamines and polyanhydrides

this review reported the recent progress on the construction of imide-based porous polymer materials via the polymerization on imide monomers

including ring-opening metathesis polymerization

free radical polymerization

aromatic nucleophilic substitution polymerization

metal-catalyzed polymerization and so on. In addition

the post-functionalization on polyimides also provided good opportunity to enhance the diversity of porous polyimides

such as thermal-initiated crosslinking of polyimides

Diels-Alder reaction on polyimides and so on. In summary

the traditional polyimides materials have found new applications by incorporating the novel structures to porous polyimides

especially via the polymerization on imide monomers. The rational design of well-defined porous polyimides with novel structure will catch more attention in the near future. The synthetic polymer chemistry will play more important roles in building up the functionalized porous polyimides materials. All these will contribute to the new development era of polyimides materials in the near future.