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Boosting the pervaporation performance of PDMS membrane for 1-butanol by MAF-6

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To meet the increasing requirements toward biobutanol, pervaporation membrane with high separation performance needs to be developed. In this work, a hydrophobic MAF-6 (RHO-[Zn(eim)2]) was synthesized and its adsorption properties for 1-butanol was systematically studied, which are supposed to benefit the separation performance of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) membrane. The hydrophobic MAF-6 particles were therefore doped into PDMS to fabricate mixed matrix membrane. The morphology, chemical structure, and other properties of particles and hybrid membrane were fully studied by SEM, PXRD, FT-IR, TGA, and BET. Results demonstrate that the hydrophobicity of PDMS membrane is improved with the water contact angle increasing from 112.7° to 118.1° after being doped with MAF-6, as well as enhanced adsorption ability toward 1-butanol. More importantly, when doping MAF-6 into PDMS layer, the enhancements of 23.30% and 41.93% are separately observed in the separation factor and total flux to separate 1.5 wt% 1-butanol solution, compared with the PDMS membrane. In addition, the heat energy consumption of pervaporation process is decreased from 4.27 to 3.71 kJ g−1 via the doping of MAF-6. Overall, this work confirms that the hydrophobic particle such as MAF-6 is not only conductive to enhance the separation performance of PDMS membrane but also helpful to decrease the energy consumption.

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The work was granted by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2018YFB1501703), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 21978016 and 22078018), and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2020M670114).

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    Peiwen Guan, Cong Ren, Houchao Shan, Di Cai, Peiyong Qin, Shufeng Li & Zhihao Si

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Guan, P., Ren, C., Shan, H. et al. Boosting the pervaporation performance of PDMS membrane for 1-butanol by MAF-6. Colloid Polym Sci 299, 1459–1468 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-021-04873-y

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