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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 28, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201707427
Keywords
gas separation membranes; metal-organic frameworks; solvothermal crystallization; thin-films
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- EPFL
- European Union's Horizon Research and innovation programme [665667]
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Metal-organic framework (MOF) films have recently emerged as highly permselective membranes yielding orders of magnitude higher gas permeance than that from the conventional membranes. However, synthesis of highly intergrown, ultrathin MOF films on porous supports without complex support-modification has proven to be a challenge. Moreover, there is an urgent need of a generic crystallization route capable of synthesizing a wide range of MOF structures in an intergrown, thin-film morphology. Herein, a novel electrophoretic nuclei assembly for crystallization of highly intergrown thin-films (ENACT) approach, that allows synthesis of ultrathin, defect-free ZIF-8 on a wide range of unmodified supports (porous polyacrylonitrile, anodized aluminum oxide, metal foil, porous carbon and graphene), is reported. As a result, a remarkably high H-2 permeance of 8.3 x 10(-6) mol m(-2) s(-1) Pa-1 and ideal gas selectivities of 7.3, 15.5, 16.2, and 2655 for H-2/CO2, H-2/N-2, H-2/CH4, and H-2/C3H8, respectively, are achieved from an ultrathin (500 nm thick) ZIF-8 membrane. A high C3H6 permeance of 9.9 x 10(-8) mol m(-2) s(-1) Pa-1 and an attractive C3H6/C3H8 selectivity of 31.6 are obtained. The ENACT approach is straightforward, reproducible and can be extended to a wide range of nanoporous crystals, and its application in the fabrication of intergrown ZIF-7 films is demonstrated.
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