Journal
MOLECULES
Volume 28, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules28052028
Keywords
6FDA-based polyimide; hypercrosslinking polymers; gas transport; molecular simulations
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Novel hypercrosslinked polymers (HCPs) incorporating 6FDA-based polyimide (PI) MMMs were prepared via a casting method for enhancing gas transport. The addition of HCPs effectively promotes gas permeability and maintains ideal selectivity, making them potential candidates for gas separation in natural gas purification and O-2 enrichment.
Novel polymers applied in economic membrane technologies are a perennial hot topic in the fields of natural gas purification and O-2 enrichment. Herein, novel hypercrosslinked polymers (HCPs) incorporating 6FDA-based polyimide (PI) MMMs were prepared via a casting method for enhancing transport of different gases (CO2, CH4, O-2, and N-2). Intact HCPs/PI MMMs could be obtained due to good compatibility between the HCPs and PI. Pure gas permeation experiments showed that compared with pure PI film, the addition of HCPs effectively promotes gas transport, increases gas permeability, and maintains ideal selectivity. The permeabilities of HCPs/PI MMMs toward CO2 and O-2 were as high as 105.85 Barrer and 24.03 Barrer, respectively, and the ideal selectivities of CO2/CH4 and O-2/N-2 were 15.67 and 3.00, respectively. Molecular simulations further verified that adding HCPs was beneficial to gas transport. Thus, HCPs have potential utility in fabrication of MMMs for facilitating gas transport in the fields of natural gas purification and O-2 enrichment.
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