Abstract
The control of membrane morphology and microstructure is crucial to improve the separation performance of molecular-sieve membranes. This can be enabled by making thin, dense, and uniform seed-crystal coatings, which are then intergrown into continuous membranes. Herein, we show a novel and simple floating particle coating method can give closely packed monolayers of zeolite nanosheets on nonporous or porous supports. The zeolite nanosheet monolayer is formed at the air–water interface in a conical Teflon trough. As the water in the trough is drained, the monolayer is deposited on a support placed below. Membranes prepared by gel-free secondary growth of the nanosheets deposited by this method show unprecedented ultra-selective performance for separation of para- from ortho-xylene (separation factor >10 000).
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 480-485 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Angewandte Chemie - International Edition |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 8 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the Center for Gas Separations Relevant to Clean Energy Technologies, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences under Award DESC0001015. Parts of this work were carried out in the Characterization Facility, University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Nano Center, which receive partial support from the NSF through the MRSEC and NNIN programs, respectively. SEM measurements were partially performed on a Hitachi 8230 provided by NSF MRI DMR-1229263.
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Keywords
- gas separations
- membranes
- monolayers
- xylene
- zeolites