Interfacial engineering of a polymer-MOF composite by in situ vitrification

Rijia Lin; Jingwei Hou; Mengran Li; Zhanke Wang; Lei Ge; Shichun Li; Simon Smart; Zhonghua Zhu; Thomas D Bennett; Vicki Chen

doi:10.1039/d0cc00664e

Interfacial engineering of a polymer-MOF composite by in situ vitrification

Chem Commun (Camb). 2020 Mar 26;56(25):3609-3612. doi: 10.1039/d0cc00664e.

Authors

Rijia Lin¹, Jingwei Hou¹, Mengran Li¹, Zhanke Wang¹, Lei Ge², Shichun Li³, Simon Smart⁴, Zhonghua Zhu¹, Thomas D Bennett⁵, Vicki Chen¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia. [email protected].
² Centre for Future Materials, University of Southern Queensland, Queensland 4300, Australia.
³ Institute of Chemical Materials, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang 621900, P. R. China.
⁴ School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia. [email protected] and Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation, The University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Australia.
⁵ Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0FS, UK.

PMID: 32167111
DOI: 10.1039/d0cc00664e

Abstract

Non-stoichoimetric crystalline ZIF-62 was used as the filler for a 6FDA-DAM polyimide-based composite membrane. In situ melting and vitrification of ZIF-62 was then performed, to yield the ZIF-62 glass phase (agZIF-62), within the polymer matrix. Focus ion beam scanning electron microscopy (FIB-SEM), thermal characterisation and membrane separation tests demonstrate the filling of voids at the MOF/polymer interface from the liquid phase of ZIF-62.