Rapid synthesis of ultrathin, defect-free ZIF-8 membranes via chemical vapour modification of a polymeric support

Ezzatollah Shamsaei; Ze-Xian Low; Xiaocheng Lin; Alireza Mayahi; Huiyuan Liu; Xiwang Zhang; Jefferson Zhe Liu; Huanting Wang

doi:10.1039/c5cc03537f

Rapid synthesis of ultrathin, defect-free ZIF-8 membranes via chemical vapour modification of a polymeric support

Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Jul 21;51(57):11474-7. doi: 10.1039/c5cc03537f.

Authors

Ezzatollah Shamsaei¹, Ze-Xian Low, Xiaocheng Lin, Alireza Mayahi, Huiyuan Liu, Xiwang Zhang, Jefferson Zhe Liu, Huanting Wang

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Clayton VIC 3800, Australia. huanting.wang@monash.edu.

PMID: 26088145
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc03537f

Abstract

Ultrathin ZIF-8 membranes with a thickness of around 200 nm were prepared by chemical vapour modification of surface chemistry and nanopores of an asymmetric bromomethylated poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide) (BPPO) substrate. The resulting ZIF-8 membranes exhibited exceptional H2 permeance as high as 2.05 × 10(-6) mol m(-2) s(-1) Pa(-1) with high H2/N2 and H2/CO2 selectivities (9.7 and 12.8, respectively).