Highly hydrogen permselective ZIF-8 membranes supported on polydopamine functionalized macroporous stainless-steel-nets

Aisheng Huang*, Qian Liu, Nanyi Wang, Jürgen Caro

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Abstract

Inspired by the bio-adhesive ability of the marine mussel, highly hydrogen permselective ZIF-8 membranes were prepared on polydopamine functionalized stainless-steel-nets (SSNs). With polydopamine functionalization of SSNs under mild conditions, the nucleation and growth of well-intergrown ZIF-8 membranes were promoted through the formation of strong non-covalent and covalent bonds, which was helpful to enhance the membrane's separation selectivity while maintaining high permeance. For binary mixtures at 100 °C and 1 bar, the mixture separation factors of H2-CO2, H2-N 2, H2-CH4 and H2-C3H 8, were found to be 8.1, 15.0, 23.2 and 329.7, which by far exceed the corresponding Knudsen coefficients and those of the as-reported ZIF-8 membranes. The ZIF-8 membranes also displayed high permeances, with the H 2 permeance higher than 2.1 × 10-5 mol m -2 s-1 Pa-1 due to the high void volume of the SSNs.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)8246-8251
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Materials Chemistry A
Volume2
Issue number22
DOIs
StatePublished - 14 Jun 2014
Externally publishedYes

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