Controlled thermal oxidative crosslinking of polymers of intrinsic microporosity towards tunable molecular sieve membranes

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Song, Qilei ^a,b   Cao, Shuai ^c   Pritchard, Robyn H ^a   Ghalei, Behnam ^d   Al Muhtaseb, Shaheen A ^e   Terentjev, Eugene M ^a   Cheetham, Anthony K ^c   Sivaniah, Easan ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER; POLYMER OF INTRINSIC MICROPOROSITY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZEOLITE;

MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OXIDATION; PERMEABILITY; POLYMER; POROSITY; THERMOCHEMISTRY; TOPOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CROSS LINKING; GAS PERMEABILITY; GAS TRANSPORT; HEAT TREATMENT; HYDROGEN BOND; ION TRANSPORT; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OXIDATION; OXYGEN DIFFUSION; POROSITY; PYROLYSIS; SOLID STATE; TENSILE STRENGTH; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 84923103246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5813     Document Type: Article

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