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Dimensional Nanofillers in Mixed Matrix Membranes for Pervaporation Separations: A Review

Pervaporation (PV) has been an intriguing membrane technology for separating liquid mixtures since its commercialization in the 1980s. The design of highly permselective materials used in this respect has made significant improvements in separation properties, such as selectivity, permeability, and...

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Autores principales: Yang, Guang, Xie, Zongli, Cran, Marlene, Wu, Chunrui, Gray, Stephen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7559426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32825195
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/membranes10090193
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author Yang, Guang
Xie, Zongli
Cran, Marlene
Wu, Chunrui
Gray, Stephen
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description Pervaporation (PV) has been an intriguing membrane technology for separating liquid mixtures since its commercialization in the 1980s. The design of highly permselective materials used in this respect has made significant improvements in separation properties, such as selectivity, permeability, and long-term stability. Mixed-matrix membranes (MMMs), featuring inorganic fillers dispersed in a polymer matrix to form an organic–inorganic hybrid, have opened up a new avenue to facilely obtain high-performance PV membranes. The combination of inorganic fillers in a polymer matrix endows high flexibility in designing the required separation properties of the membranes, in which various fillers provide specific functions correlated to the separation process. This review discusses recent advances in the use of nanofillers in PV MMMs categorized by dimensions including zero-, one-, two- and three-dimensional nanomaterials. Furthermore, the impact of the nanofillers on the polymer matrix is described to provide in-depth understanding of the structure–performance relationship. Finally, the applications of nanofillers in MMMs for PV separation are summarized.
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spelling pubmed-75594262020-10-26 Dimensional Nanofillers in Mixed Matrix Membranes for Pervaporation Separations: A Review Yang, Guang Xie, Zongli Cran, Marlene Wu, Chunrui Gray, Stephen Membranes (Basel) Review Pervaporation (PV) has been an intriguing membrane technology for separating liquid mixtures since its commercialization in the 1980s. The design of highly permselective materials used in this respect has made significant improvements in separation properties, such as selectivity, permeability, and long-term stability. Mixed-matrix membranes (MMMs), featuring inorganic fillers dispersed in a polymer matrix to form an organic–inorganic hybrid, have opened up a new avenue to facilely obtain high-performance PV membranes. The combination of inorganic fillers in a polymer matrix endows high flexibility in designing the required separation properties of the membranes, in which various fillers provide specific functions correlated to the separation process. This review discusses recent advances in the use of nanofillers in PV MMMs categorized by dimensions including zero-, one-, two- and three-dimensional nanomaterials. Furthermore, the impact of the nanofillers on the polymer matrix is described to provide in-depth understanding of the structure–performance relationship. Finally, the applications of nanofillers in MMMs for PV separation are summarized. MDPI 2020-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7559426/ /pubmed/32825195 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/membranes10090193 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Cran, Marlene
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Gray, Stephen
Dimensional Nanofillers in Mixed Matrix Membranes for Pervaporation Separations: A Review
title Dimensional Nanofillers in Mixed Matrix Membranes for Pervaporation Separations: A Review
title_full Dimensional Nanofillers in Mixed Matrix Membranes for Pervaporation Separations: A Review
title_fullStr Dimensional Nanofillers in Mixed Matrix Membranes for Pervaporation Separations: A Review
title_full_unstemmed Dimensional Nanofillers in Mixed Matrix Membranes for Pervaporation Separations: A Review
title_short Dimensional Nanofillers in Mixed Matrix Membranes for Pervaporation Separations: A Review
title_sort dimensional nanofillers in mixed matrix membranes for pervaporation separations: a review
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7559426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32825195
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/membranes10090193
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