Membranes with artificial free-volume for biofuel production

Petzetakis, Nikos; Doherty, Cara M.; Thornton, Aaron W.; Chen, X. Chelsea; Cotanda, Pepa; Hill, Anita J.; Balsara, Nitash P.

doi:10.1038/ncomms8529

Title: Membranes with artificial free-volume for biofuel production

Journal Article · Wed Jun 24 04:00:00 UTC 2015 · Nature Communications

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8529 · OSTI ID:1256031

Petzetakis, Nikos ^[1]; Doherty, Cara M. ^[2]; Thornton, Aaron W. ^[2]; Chen, X. Chelsea ^[3]; Cotanda, Pepa ^[3]; Hill, Anita J. ^[2]; Balsara, Nitash P. ^[4]

Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
CSIRO Manufacturing Private Bag 10, Victoria (Australia)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Free-volume of polymers governs transport of penetrants through polymeric films. Control over free-volume is thus important for the development of better membranes for a wide variety of applications such as gas separations, pharmaceutical purifications and energy storage. To date, methodologies used to create materials with different amounts of free-volume are based primarily on chemical synthesis of new polymers. Here we report a simple methodology for generating free-volume based on the self-assembly of polyethylene-b-polydimethylsiloxane-b-polyethylene triblock copolymers. Here, we have used this method to fabricate a series of membranes with identical compositions but with different amounts of free-volume. We use the term artificial free-volume to refer to the additional free-volume created by self-assembly. The effect of artificial free-volume on selective transport through the membranes was tested using butanol/water and ethanol/water mixtures due to their importance in biofuel production. Moreover, we found that the introduction of artificial free-volume improves both alcohol permeability and selectivity.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1256031

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Vol. 6; ISSN 2041-1723

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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