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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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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/). |
spellingShingle | Review Yang, Guang Xie, Zongli Cran, Marlene Wu, Chunrui 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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