Mixed-Penetrant Sorption in Ultra-Thin Films of Polymer of Intrinsic Microporosity PIM-1
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ArticleKAUST Department
Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Research CenterChemical Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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OSR-2015-SEED-2445-01Date
2017-10-24Online Publication Date
2017-10-24Print Publication Date
2017-11-02Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/625906
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Mixed penetrant sorption into ultra-thin films of a super-glassy polymer of intrinsic microporosity (PIM-1) was studied for the first time by using interference-enhanced in-situ spectroscopic ellipsometry. PIM-1 swelling and the concurrent changes in its refractive index were determined in ultra-thin (12 - 14 nm) films exposed to pure and mixed penetrants. The penetrants included water, n-hexane and ethanol and were chosen based on their significantly different penetrant-penetrant and penetrant-polymer affinities. This allowed studying microporous polymer responses at diverse ternary compositions and revealed effects such as competition for the sorption sites (for water / n-hexane or ethanol / n-hexane) or enhancement in sorption of typically weakly sorbing water in the presence of more highly sorbing ethanol. The results reveal details of the mutual sorption effects which often complicate comprehension of glassy polymers' behavior in applications such as high-performance membranes, adsorbents or catalysts. Mixed-penetrant effects are typically very challenging to study directly and their understanding is necessary owing to a broadly recognized inadequacy of simple extrapolations from measurements in pure component environment.Citation
Ogieglo W, Furchner A, Ghanem BS, Ma X-H, Pinnau I, et al. (2017) Mixed-Penetrant Sorption in Ultra-Thin Films of Polymer of Intrinsic Microporosity PIM-1. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b10061.Sponsors
This publication is based upon work supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) under Award No. SEED Fund OSR-2015-SEED-2445-01.Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)PubMed ID
29023118Additional Links
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b10061ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b10061
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