We report a simple and effective method for the preparation of high-density and aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes. The CNT arrays were prepared by water-assisted chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and were subsequently pushed over and stacked into dense membranes by mechanical rolling. It was demonstrated that various gases and liquids, including H2, He, N2, O2, Ar, water, ethanol, hexane, a...

Water and air pollutants have huge impacts on the entire living system. In addition, the newly emerging nanopollutants, increasing global warming, and consequent climate changes are posing major threats to the freshwater or fresh air availability. This has made it urgent to invent an appropriate water/air treatment technology that removes nanopollutants and also desalinates water to a significa...

Mixed matrix membranes containing metal-organic frameworks have attracted large attention owing to the combined advantages of high separation performance and easy processability. In this work, CO2-philic zirconium metal organic framework UiO-66 and UiO-66-NH2 nanocrystals were synthesized and embedded into polyether block amide (PEBA) polymer membranes for CO2 separation. It can be found that a...

Natural gas is becoming an increasingly important energy source, due to the increasing energy demands and declining oil reserves, whereas large volumes of natural gas are still widely available at remote locations. In view of the existing infrastructure for liquid fuels, natural gas is most efficiently used in the transport sector by converting it to liquid fuels via the Gas-To-Liquid process. ...

Fluorine-containing polymers have a number of valuable physical and chemical properties, such as high chemical and heat resistance, high mechanical strength and highly selective gas separation characteristics. One of the ways to produce fluoropolymer membranes is through surface fluorination. The modifcation of commercial polymers with membrane properties, poly(4-methyl-1...

Gas transport properties of novel polybenzoxazole (PBO) – silica hybrid membranes with a para-substituted structure were investigated. The PBO prepared poly(o-hydroxy amide) as precursor polymer and tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) via thermal oxazolization sol-gel processes. neat treated at different temperatures showed higher fractional free volumes than corresponding meta-substituted reported previo...

Gas membrane separation technology is a kind of mixed gas with low energy consumption, simple equipment, easy operation and no influence on the environment. Due to special properties graphene oxide (GO) membrane, GO has become research hotspot technology. In this paper, A critical thickness demonstrated: when less than 600nm, conductance inversely exponential thickness, but proportional thicker...