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Microporous Polymers for Gas Separation Membranes: Overview and Advances

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In this chapter on the basis of a thorough review of the literature in the field, the key points for high performance microporous polymers for gas separation membranes are reported and discussed. Particular relevance is given to polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs). Recent findings on ultrapermeable, ultramicroporous PIMs show that currently they define the state of the art in the trade-off between permeability and selectivity for all important gas separations. Highly permeable membranes that are selective for CO2 over methane (CO2/CH4) and CO2 over nitrogen (CO2/N2) are of increasing interest for natural gas/biogas upgrading and carbon capture, respectively, due to the inherent efficiency of membrane separations.

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Buonomenna, M.G. (2020). Microporous Polymers for Gas Separation Membranes: Overview and Advances. In: Hussain, C., Thomas, S. (eds) Handbook of Polymer and Ceramic Nanotechnology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10614-0_48-1

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