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- Title
Molecularly Mixed Composite Membranes for Advanced Separation Processes.
- Authors
Zhu, Guanghui; Zhang, Fengyi; Rivera, Matthew P.; Hu, Xunxiang; Zhang, Guoyan; Jones, Christopher W.; Lively, Ryan P.
- Abstract
Porous organic cages (POCs) are individual soluble, porous molecules. When fabricated into mixed‐matrix membranes (MMMs), the soluble POC molecules have the potential to exhibit intimate molecular‐level mixing with the polymer matrix. POCs have only recently been incorporated into mixed matrix membrane materials, but this process has not yet resulted in significant improvements of membrane performance. Now, vertex‐functionalized amorphous scrambled porous organic cages (ASPOCs) have been utilized as membrane performance enhancers and the amorphous ASPOC mixtures are observed to distribute throughout the matrix without any indication of particle formation or agglomeration, creating unique, molecularly mixed composite membranes. Overall, the molecularly mixed composite membrane provide significant increases in both membrane permeability and selectivity, offering new avenues for creation of membranes with unique properties in industrially relevant separations.
- Subjects
POLYMERS; COMPOSITE membranes (Chemistry); NANOPARTICLES; POLYMERIC membranes; GAS separation membranes
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie, 2019, Vol 131, Issue 9, p2664
- ISSN
0044-8249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ange.201811341