Ethylene/ethane permeation, diffusion and gas sorption properties of carbon molecular sieve membranes derived from the prototype ladder polymer of intrinsic microporosity (PIM-1)

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 504, Issue , 2016, Pages 133-140

  Salinas, Octavio ^a   Ma, Xiaohua ^a   Litwiller, Eric ^a   Pinnau, Ingo ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Carbon molecular sieve; Ethylene ethane separation; Intrinsically microporous polymer; PIM 1

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS CARBON; CARBONIZATION; CROSSLINKING; ETHYLENE; GAS PERMEABILITY; MICROPOROSITY; MOLECULAR SIEVES; POLYMERS; SIEVES;

CARBON MOLECULAR SIEVE; CARBON MOLECULAR SIEVE MEMBRANES; ETHYLENE/ETHANE SEPARATION; GAS SORPTION PROPERTIES; INTRINSIC MICROPOROSITY; MICROPOROUS POLYMERS; PIM-1; PYROLYSIS TEMPERATURE;

GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES;

CARBON; CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; DIOXANE; ETHANE; ETHYLENE; HYDROXYL GROUP; POLYMER; POLYMER OF INTRINSIC MICROPOROSITY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; DEGRADATION; DIFFUSION; GRAVIMETRY; HEAT TREATMENT; MEMBRANE; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROLYSIS;

EID: 84955254249     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2015.12.052     Document Type: Article

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