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Guan J, Du J, Sun Q, He W, Ma J, Hassan SUI, Wu J, Zhang H, Zhang S, Liu J. Metal-organic cages improving microporosity in polymeric membrane for superior CO 2 capture. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2025; 11:eads0583. [PMID: 39841833 PMCID: PMC11753381 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ads0583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2024] [Accepted: 12/18/2024] [Indexed: 01/24/2025]
Abstract
Mixed matrix membranes, with well-designed pore structure inside the polymeric matrix via the incorporation of inorganic components, offer a promising solution for addressing CO2 emissions. Here, we synthesized a series of novel metal organic cages (MOCs) with aperture pore size precisely positioned between CO2 and N2 or CH4. These MOCs were uniformly dispersed in the polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIM-1). Among them, the MOC-Ph cage effectively modulated chain packing and optimized the microporous structure of the membrane. Remarkably, the PIM-Ph-5% membrane shows superior performance, achieving an excellent CO2 permeability of 8803.4 barrer and CO2/N2 selectivity of 59.9, far exceeding the 2019 upper bound. This approach opens opportunities for improving the porous structure of polymeric membranes for CO2 capture and other separation applications.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jian Guan
- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117576, Singapore
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- State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117576, Singapore
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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Yu M, Foster AB, Alshurafa M, Scholes CA, Kentish SE, Budd PM. Effect of Temperature-Induced Aging on the Gas Permeation Behavior of Thin Film Composite Membranes of PIM-1 and Carboxylated PIM-1. Ind Eng Chem Res 2024; 63:16198-16207. [PMID: 39319075 PMCID: PMC11417989 DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.4c02230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2024] [Revised: 08/22/2024] [Accepted: 08/26/2024] [Indexed: 09/26/2024]
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Polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) are a class of promising gas separation materials due to their high membrane permeabilities and reasonable selectivities. When processed into thin film composite (TFC) membranes, their high gas throughput aligns closely with industrial requirements, but they are prone to physical aging and plasticization effects. TFC membranes based on the prototypical PIM-1 and its carboxylated derivative cPIM-1 exhibit temperature-dependent gas permeation behavior, which has not been extensively studied before. In single CO2 permeation tests, measurable physical aging occurred when the temperature was raised to 55 °C within a period of 90 min, and the aging rate accelerated as temperature was raised further. TFC membranes prepared from cPIM-1 exhibited a faster aging rate compared to PIM-1 at the same temperature. The decreased permeance could be at least partially recovered through a 5 day methanol vapor treatment. In mixed gas experiments, all membranes showed decreased permselectivities at elevated temperatures. The plasticization pressure of TFC membranes occurred at around 1 bar of CO2 partial pressure, independent of temperature. Significant plasticization was particularly evident for cPIM-1 TFC membranes under CO2/CH4 conditions with increasing temperature, which resulted in increased gas permeance for both components.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ming Yu
- Department
of Chemical Engineering, The University
of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
- Department
of Chemistry, School of Natural Sciences, The University of Manchester, M13 9PL Manchester, U.K.
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- Department
of Chemistry, School of Natural Sciences, The University of Manchester, M13 9PL Manchester, U.K.
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- Department
of Chemistry, School of Natural Sciences, The University of Manchester, M13 9PL Manchester, U.K.
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, The University
of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, The University
of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
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- Department
of Chemistry, School of Natural Sciences, The University of Manchester, M13 9PL Manchester, U.K.
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Yu S, Li C, Zhao S, Chai M, Hou J, Lin R. Recent advances in the interfacial engineering of MOF-based mixed matrix membranes for gas separation. NANOSCALE 2024; 16:7716-7733. [PMID: 38536054 DOI: 10.1039/d4nr00096j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
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The membrane process stands as a promising and transformative technology for efficient gas separation due to its high energy efficiency, operational simplicity, low environmental impact, and easy up-and-down scaling. Metal-organic framework (MOF)-polymer mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) combine MOFs' superior gas-separation performance with polymers' processing versatility, offering the opportunity to address the limitations of pure polymer or inorganic membranes for large-scale integration. However, the incompatibility between the rigid MOFs and flexible polymer chains poses a challenge in MOF MMM fabrication, which can cause issues such as MOF agglomeration, sedimentation, and interfacial defects, substantially weakening membrane separation efficiency and mechanical properties, particularly gas separation. This review focuses on engineering MMMs' interfaces, detailing recent strategies for reducing interfacial defects, improving MOF dispersion, and enhancing MOF loading. Advanced characterisation techniques for understanding membrane properties, specifically the MOF-polymer interface, are outlined. Lastly, it explores the remaining challenges in MMM research and outlines potential future research directions.
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- Shuwen Yu
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Suzhou University, Suzhou, 234000, China
- School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia.
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- School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia.
- School of Physical Science and Technology, Shanghai Tech University, Shanghai, 201210, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia.
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- School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia.
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- School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia.
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- School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia.
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Lee TH, Lee BK, Yoo SY, Lee H, Wu WN, Smith ZP, Park HB. PolyMOF nanoparticles constructed from intrinsically microporous polymer ligand towards scalable composite membranes for CO 2 separation. Nat Commun 2023; 14:8330. [PMID: 38097615 PMCID: PMC10721836 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44027-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2023] [Accepted: 11/28/2023] [Indexed: 12/17/2023] Open
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Integrating different modification strategies into a single step to achieve the desired properties of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) has been very synthetically challenging, especially in developing advanced MOF/polymer mixed matrix membranes (MMMs). Herein, we report a polymer-MOF (polyMOF) system constructed from a carboxylated polymer with intrinsic microporosity (cPIM-1) ligand. This intrinsically microporous ligand could coordinate with metals, leading to ~100 nm-sized polyMOF nanoparticles. Compared to control MOFs, these polyMOFs exhibit enhanced ultramicroporosity for efficient molecular sieving, and they have better dispersion properties in casting solutions to prepare MMMs. Ultimately, integrating coordination chemistries through the cPIM-1 and polymer-based functionality into porous materials results in polyMOF/PIM-1 MMMs that display excellent CO2 separation performance (surpassing the CO2/N2 and CO2/CH4 upper bounds). In addition to exploring the physicochemical and transport properties of this polyMOF system, scalability has been demonstrated by converting the developed MMM material into large-area (400 cm2) thin-film nanocomposite (TFN) membranes.
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- Tae Hoon Lee
- Department of Energy Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, 04763, Republic of Korea
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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- Department of Energy Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, 04763, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Energy Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, 04763, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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- Department of Energy Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, 04763, Republic of Korea.
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Peng D, Duan S, Feng X, Liu Z, Wang J, Li D, Zhang Y. Mixed-matrix membranes containing zero-dimension porphyrin-based complex for propylene/propane separation. Sep Purif Technol 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2023.123656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/04/2023]
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Lee TH, Balçık M, Lee BK, Ghanem BS, Pinnau I, Park HB. Hyperaging-induced H2-selective thin-film composite membranes with enhanced submicroporosity toward green hydrogen supply. J Memb Sci 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2023.121438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Chen X, Wang N, Chen G, Wang Z, Liu G, Zhou R, Jin W. Zeolite/polyimide mixed-matrix membranes with enhanced natural gas purification performance: Importance of filler structural integrity. J Memb Sci 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2023.121462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Chang YS, Kumari P, Munro CJ, Szekely G, Vega LF, Nunes S, Dumée LF. Plasticization mitigation strategies for gas and liquid filtration membranes - A review. J Memb Sci 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2022.121125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Lee TH, Lee BK, Youn C, Kang JH, Kim YJ, Kim KI, Ha YR, Han Y, Park HB. Interface engineering in MOF/crosslinked polyimide mixed matrix membranes for enhanced propylene/propane separation performance and plasticization resistance. J Memb Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2022.121182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Kunjattu H S, Kharul UK. PPO-ZIF MMMs possessing metal-polymer interactions for propane/propylene separation. J Memb Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2022.121208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Cyclomatrix polyphosphazene organic solvent nanofiltration membranes. J Memb Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2022.121215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Lee TH, Lee BK, Park JS, Park J, Kang JH, Yoo SY, Park I, Kim YH, Park HB. Surface Modification of Matrimid ® 5218 Polyimide Membrane with Fluorine-Containing Diamines for Efficient Gas Separation. MEMBRANES 2022; 12:256. [PMID: 35323731 PMCID: PMC8950901 DOI: 10.3390/membranes12030256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2022] [Revised: 02/16/2022] [Accepted: 02/22/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
Abstract
Polyimide membranes have been widely investigated in gas separation applications due to their high separation abilities, excellent processability, relatively low cost, and stabilities. Unfortunately, it is extremely challenging to simultaneously achieve both improved gas permeability and selectivity due to the trade-off relationship in common polymer membranes. Diamine modification is a simple strategy to tune the separation performance of polyimide membranes, but an excessive loss in permeability is also generally observed. In the present work, we reported the effects of diamine type (i.e., non-fluorinated and fluorinated) on the physicochemical properties and the corresponding separation performance of a modified membrane using a commercial Matrimid® 5218 polyimide. Detailed spectroscopic, thermal, and surface analyses reveal that the bulky fluorine groups are responsible for the balanced chain packing modes in the resulting Matrimid membranes compared to the non-fluorinated diamines. Consequently, the modified Matrimid membranes using fluorinated diamines exhibit both higher gas permeability and selectivity than those of pristine Matrimid, making them especially effective for improving the separation performance towards H2/CH4 and CO2/CH4 pairs. The results indicate that the use of fluorinated modifiers may offer new opportunities to tune the gas transport properties of polyimide membranes.
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Affiliation(s)
- Tae Hoon Lee
- Department of Energy Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Korea; (T.H.L.); (B.K.L.); (J.S.P.); (J.H.K.); (S.Y.Y.); (I.P.)
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- Department of Energy Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Korea; (T.H.L.); (B.K.L.); (J.S.P.); (J.H.K.); (S.Y.Y.); (I.P.)
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- Department of Energy Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Korea; (T.H.L.); (B.K.L.); (J.S.P.); (J.H.K.); (S.Y.Y.); (I.P.)
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- H2 Technology, R&D Division, KOGAS Research Institute, Incheon 21993, Korea;
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- Department of Energy Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Korea; (T.H.L.); (B.K.L.); (J.S.P.); (J.H.K.); (S.Y.Y.); (I.P.)
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- Department of Energy Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Korea; (T.H.L.); (B.K.L.); (J.S.P.); (J.H.K.); (S.Y.Y.); (I.P.)
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- Department of Energy Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Korea; (T.H.L.); (B.K.L.); (J.S.P.); (J.H.K.); (S.Y.Y.); (I.P.)
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- H2 Technology, R&D Division, KOGAS Research Institute, Incheon 21993, Korea;
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- Department of Energy Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Korea; (T.H.L.); (B.K.L.); (J.S.P.); (J.H.K.); (S.Y.Y.); (I.P.)
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