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Research on triazine-based nitrogen-doped porous carbon/Pebax mixed-matrix membranes for CO2 separation and its gas transport mechanism

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Nitrogen-doped porous carbon (NPC) has a rich microporous structure and nitrogen-rich units, and its nitrogen-containing group can interact strongly with the PEO chain segment of Pebax, synergistically improving its CO2 adsorption ability and interface compatibility. This work prepared three types of triazine-based NPCs with mesoporous and high N-content and added NPCs to Pebax-2533 to prepare NPC/Pebax-2533 MMMs. The effects of N-type, N-content, and pore structure of NPCs on the gas separation performance of MMMs were studied. Constructing a continuous meso-microporous structure within the membrane and adding alkaline N-containing groups were beneficial for promoting rapid CO2 transport. Among the three NPCs, NPC-1/Pebax MMMs prepared using NPC-1 with the highest N-content (10.91%) and suitable pore structure exhibited the best gas separation performance. To investigate the gas transport mechanism of NPC in MMMs, NPC-1 was added to Pebax-2533 and Pebax-1657. The permeability of 3NPC-1/Pebax-2533 MMMs and 0.5NPC-1/Pebax-1657 MMMs reached 423 Barrer and 178 Barrer, with a CO2/N2 selectivity of 61 and 75.8, respectively, both higher than the Pebax-2533 and Pebax-1657. Adding NPC-1 to Pebax-2533 and Pebax-1657 increased the solubility and diffusivity coefficient of MMMs by 40 ~ 80%, and the gas separation performance did not rapidly decrease after long-term stability of 120 h (15%CO2/N2). Compared with NPC-1/Pebax-1657 MMMs, NPC-1/Pebax-2533 MMMs had higher CO2 permeability, mechanical properties, solubility, and diffusivity coefficient. The above results indicated that NPC was more suitable for Pebax-2533.

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Thanks for the help of the Analysis and Testing Center, International Joint Lab of Jiangsu Education Department, and NERC Biomass of Changzhou University.

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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2022YFB3805003), the Changzhou Sci&Tech Program (CZ20220033 and CZ20230022), the Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (KYCX22_3026), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 22108015). This work was also partially supported by the Kobe University Strategic International Collaborative Research Grant (Type B Fostering Joint Research).

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  1. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Environmentally Friendly Polymer Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou, 213164, Jiangsu, China

    Peilin Li & Wenzhong Ma

  2. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Technology, School of Petrochemical Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou, 213164, Jiangsu, China

    Peilin Li, Wenzhong Ma, Jing Zhong, Yang Pan, Xiuxiu Ren, Meng Guo & Nanhua Wu

  3. Research Center for Membrane and Film Technology, Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai, Nada-Ku, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan

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Li, P., Ma, W., Zhong, J. et al. Research on triazine-based nitrogen-doped porous carbon/Pebax mixed-matrix membranes for CO2 separation and its gas transport mechanism. J Nanopart Res 26, 108 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-024-06015-1

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