This lecture is designed to provide a solid background for students who intend to go on to the graduate study and a thorough background in the fundamentals of adsorption onto polymers

Sorption onto surface of polymer sorbents and desorption, porosity on polymer sorbents, determination of porosity of polymer sorbents, determination of specific surface area and total pore volume of polymeric sorbents, classification of polymeric sorbents, mechanism of sorption of low-molecular substances by polymers, equilibrium sorption studies of polymers, industrial adsorption applications of polymers, applications of polymeric sorbents in nanotechnology