Gas permeation through single-crystal ZIF-8 membranes

Gas permeation; Ideal selectivity; Metal-organic framework; Single crystal; ZIF-8; Ideal selectivities; Intrinsic selectivity; Metal organic framework; Microstructural features; Polycrystalline metals; Separation performance; Biochemistry; Materials Science (all); Physical and Theoretical Chemistry; Filtration and Separation; General Materials Science

Abstract :

[en] Grain boundaries are an unavoidable microstructural feature in intergrown polycrystalline metal-organic framework (MOF) membranes. They have been suspected to be less size-selective than a MOF's micropores, resulting in suboptimal separation performances – a speculation recently confirmed by transmission electron microscopy of MOF ZIF-8. Single-crystal membranes, without grain boundaries, should confine mass transport to micropores and reflect the intrinsic selectivity of the porous material. Here, we demonstrate the feasibility of fabricating single-crystal MOF membranes and directly measuring gas permeability through such a membrane using ZIF-8 as an exemplary MOF. Our single-crystal ZIF-8 membranes achieved ideal selectivities up to 28.9, 10.0, 40.1 and 3.6 for gas pairs CO2/N2, CO2/CH4, He/CH4 and CH4/N2 respectively, much higher than or reversely selective to over 20 polycrystalline ZIF-8 membranes, unequivocally proving the non-selectivity of grain boundaries. The permeability trend obtained in single-crystal membranes aligned with a force field that had been validated against multiple empirical adsorption isotherms.

Disciplines :

Chemical engineering

Author, co-author :

Chen, Chen; Barrer Centre, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Ozcan, Aydin; Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, United Kingdom

Yazaydin, A. Ozgur; Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, United Kingdom

LADEWIG, Bradley Paul ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) > Department of Engineering (DoE) ; Barrer Centre, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom ; Institute for Micro Process Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technolog, Germany

External co-authors :

yes

Language :

English

Title :

Gas permeation through single-crystal ZIF-8 membranes

Publication date :

April 2019

Journal title :

Journal of Membrane Science

ISSN :

0376-7388

eISSN :

1873-3123

Publisher :

Elsevier B.V.

Volume :

575

Pages :

209 - 216

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

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