Which is the Future for Organic Monolithic Composite Materials for Analytical Applications?

The quest for methodologies which allows the quantification of low amounts of analytes in complicated matrices, the improvement in efficiency and reduction of costs have been a real challenge in the last years. In this sense, the preparation of novel materials in separation and sample preparation have been widely developed. Particularly, the appearance of porous organic polymers in the latest 80s and its more recently combination with other materials from different nature have offer a perfect opportunity to overcome the limitation of conventional silica particles. In this manuscript, a short state-of-the art combined with a viewpoint of the porous organic polymer composites and the possible direction that should be taken in the near future have been considered.