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JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE
Volume 359, Issue 1-2, Pages 11-24Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2009.09.037
Keywords
Thermal rearrangement; High-temperature polymers; Microporous polymers; Membranes; Gas separation
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- Carbon Dioxide Reduction and Sequestration Center
- Ministry of Science and Technology in Korea
- Ministry of Education, Science & Technology (MoST), Republic of Korea [R31-2008-000-10092-0] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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The evolution of micropores in polymer membranes helps accelerate mass transport phenomena on a sub-nanoscale, providing significant technological applications for adsorption, separation and storage. Here we report the synthesis and characterization of thermally rearranged (TR) polymer membranes showing unexpected microporous characters that are often observed in microporous inorganic materials, by using thermal rearrangement of various aromatic polyimides with semi-rigid chain segments in a solid state. Differing from other superglassy polymers (e.g., poly(1-methylsilyl-1-propyne) (PTMSP)) possessing larges cavities, these TR polymer membranes show fast molecular transport as well as a molecular sieving effect for small gas molecules. Micropore structures and their size distributions can be easily tuned by varying the monomer structures of the precursor polymers (i.e., polyimides with ortho-positioned functional groups, PIOFG) and by using different thermal treatment protocols (e.g., final temperature and thermal dwell time). These TR polymer membranes exhibit excellent gas separation performance, especially in carbon dioxide separations (e.g., CO2/CH4), without any paramount plasticization effect. The current approach will be useful in an assessment of the achievements of membrane materials science, providing much insight into new class of microporous polymers. (C) 2009 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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