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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mizrahi Rodriguez, Katherine
• Benedetti, Francesco M
• Roy, Naksha
• Wu, Albert X
• Smith, Zachary P

Titel

Sorption-enhanced mixed-gas transport in amine functionalized polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs)

Ist Teil von

• Journal of materials chemistry. A, Materials for energy and sustainability, 2021-10, Vol.9 (41), p.23631-23642

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Pure-gas transport performance rarely matches mixed-gas performance for industrially relevant membrane applications. While significant effort has focused on studying the adverse effects of plasticization, an additional phenomenon known as competitive sorption can be used to improve performance, resulting in mixed-gas permselectivities that far exceed pure-gas predictions. Such findings are rare, but recent synthetic discoveries of functional polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) now provide a platform to investigate if competitive sorption effects can improve separation performance in complex mixtures by offsetting the adverse effects of plasticization. In this work, we report high-pressure and mixed-gas transport properties for six PIMs with identical benzodioxane backbones and a diverse set of backbone functionalities. Low-pressure mixed-gas tests revealed a relationship between CO 2 sorption affinity of the PIMs and improvements in CO 2 /CH 4 and CO 2 /N 2 mixed-gas permselectivity compared to pure-gas scenarios. The amine-functionalized PIM-1 (PIM-NH 2 ) showed an unprecedented 140% and 250% increase in equimolar CO 2 /CH 4 and CO 2 /N 2 mixed-gas permselectivity, respectively, compared to that of pure-gas tests at 2 atm. Additionally, PIM-NH 2 retained high CO 2 /CH 4 mixed-gas permselectivity (>20) up to pressures of 26 atm in 50/50 CO 2 /CH 4 mixtures, demonstrating a resistance to plasticization. Pure-gas sorption and mixed-gas permeation for the six PIMs were compared to elucidate structure-property relationships. Results demonstrate the remarkable potential of primary amine functionalization for developing highly sorption-selective and plasticization-resistant membranes for gas separations. Pure-gas sorption and mixed-gas transport properties of six functionalized PIM-1 variants were systematically investigated to study the role of CO 2 affinity and polymer chemistry on competitive sorption.