Rational Design of Intrinsically Ultramicroporous Polyimides Containing Bridgehead-Substituted Triptycene for Highly Selective and Permeable Gas Separation Membranes

Autor:	Bader S. Ghanem, Majed Al-Saeedi, Raja Swaidan, Ingo Pinnau, Eric Litwiller
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Materials science Polymers and Plastics Organic Chemistry Inorganic Chemistry chemistry.chemical_compound Membrane chemistry Triptycene Polymer chemistry Materials Chemistry Gas separation Selectivity Elastic modulus Isopropyl Polyimide BET theory
Zdroj:	Macromolecules. 47:5104-5114
ISSN:	1520-5835 0024-9297
DOI:	10.1021/ma5009226
Popis:	Highly ultramicroporous, solution-processable polyimides bearing 9,10-bridgehead-substituted triptycene demonstrated the highest BET surface area reported for polyimides (840 m2 g–1) and several new highs in gas selectivity and permeability for hydrogen (1630–3980 barrers, H2/CH4 ∼ 38) and air (230–630 barrers, O2/N2 = 5.5–5.9) separations. Two new dianhydrides bearing 9,10-diethyl- and 9,10-dipropyltriptycenes indicate that the ultramicroporosity is optimized for fast polymeric sieving with the use of short, bulky isopropyl bridgeheads and methyl-substituted diamines (TrMPD, TMPD, and TMBZ) that increase intrachain rigidity. Mechanically, the triptycene-based analogue of a spirobisindane-based polyimide exhibited 50% increases in both tensile strength at break (94 MPa) and elastic modulus (2460 MPa) with corresponding 90% lower elongations at break (6%) likely due to the ability of highly entangled spiro-based chains to unwind. To guide future polyimide design, structure/property relationships are sugges...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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