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Imad M, Castro-Muñoz R. Ongoing Progress on Pervaporation Membranes for Ethanol Separation. MEMBRANES 2023; 13:848. [PMID: 37888020 PMCID: PMC10608438 DOI: 10.3390/membranes13100848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2023] [Revised: 10/04/2023] [Accepted: 10/19/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023]
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Ethanol, a versatile chemical extensively employed in several fields, including fuel production, food and beverage, pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, and chemical manufacturing, continues to witness expanding applications. Consequently, there is an ongoing need for cost-effective and environmentally friendly purification technologies for this organic compound in both diluted (ethanol-water-) and concentrated solutions (water-ethanol-). Pervaporation (PV), as a membrane technology, has emerged as a promising solution offering significant reductions in energy and resource consumption during the production of high-purity components. This review aims to provide a panorama of the recent advancements in materials adapted into PV membranes, encompassing polymeric membranes (and possible blending), inorganic membranes, mixed-matrix membranes, and emerging two-dimensional-material membranes. Among these membrane materials, we discuss the ones providing the most relevant performance in separating ethanol from the liquid systems of water-ethanol and ethanol-water, among others. Furthermore, this review identifies the challenges and future opportunities in material design and fabrication techniques, and the establishment of structure-performance relationships. These endeavors aim to propel the development of next-generation pervaporation membranes with an enhanced separation efficiency.
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- Muhammad Imad
- Department of Process and Systems Engineering, Otto-von-Guericke University, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
- Department of Chemical and Energy Engineering, Pak-Austria Fachhochschule, Haripur 22620, Pakistan
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- Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Toluca, Avenida Eduardo Monroy Cárdenas 2000 San Antonio Buenavista, Toluca de Lerdo 50110, Mexico
- Department of Sanitary Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology, G. Narutowicza St. 11/12, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland
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Kim P, Kwon Y, Lee M, Kim D, Park YI, Choi N, Nam SE, Choi J. LTA zeolite membranes on thin-walled capillary tubes for the high-throughput dehydration of industrially important ternary water/isopropanol/epichlorohydrin mixtures. Sep Purif Technol 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2023.123733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/05/2023]
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Zhu F, Landon J, Liu K. FAU
zeolite membranes for dewatering of
amine‐based post‐combustion CO
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capture solutions. AIChE J 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/aic.17042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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- Feng Zhu
- University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research Lexington Kentucky USA
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- University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research Lexington Kentucky USA
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- University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research Lexington Kentucky USA
- Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Kentucky Lexington Kentucky USA
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Chen X, Mohammed S, Yang G, Qian T, Chen Y, Ma H, Xie Z, Zhang X, Simon GP, Wang H. Selective Permeation of Water through Angstrom-Channel Graphene Membranes for Bioethanol Concentration. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2020; 32:e2002320. [PMID: 32639058 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202002320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2020] [Revised: 05/25/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Graphene-based laminate membranes have been theoretically predicted to selectively transport ethanol from ethanol-water solution while blocking water. Here, robust angstrom-channel graphene membranes (ACGMs) fabricated by intercalating carbon sheets derived from chitosan into thermally reduced graphene oxide (GO) sheets are reported. ACGMs with robust and continuous slit-shaped pores (an average pore size of 3.9 Å) are investigated for the dehydration of ethanol. Surprisingly, only water permeates through ACGMs in the presence of aqueous ethanol solution. For the water-ethanol mixture containing 90 wt% ethanol, water can selectively permeate through ACGMs with a water flux of 63.8 ± 3.2 kg m-2 h-1 at 20 °C and 389.1 ± 19.4 kg m-2 h-1 at 60 °C, which are over two orders of magnitude higher than those of conventional pervaporation membranes. This means that ACGMs can effectively operate at room temperature. Moreover, the ethanol can be fast concentrated to high purity (up to 99.9 wt%). Therefore, ACGMs are very promising for production of bioethanol with high efficiency, thus improving its process sustainability.
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- Xiaofang Chen
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia
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- CSIRO Manufacturing, Private Bag 10, Clayton South, Victoria, 3169, Australia
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia
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- Monash Center for Electron Microscopy, Monash University, Victoria, 3800, Australia
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia
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- CSIRO Manufacturing, Private Bag 10, Clayton South, Victoria, 3169, Australia
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia
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On the effects of water exposure of as-synthesized LTA membranes on their structural properties and dehydration performances. Sep Purif Technol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2019.116493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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UiO-66-NH2 incorporated dual-layer hollow fibers made by immiscibility induced phase separation (I2PS) process for ethanol dehydration via pervaporation. J Memb Sci 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2019.117571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Hu MZ, Engtrakul C, Bischoff BL, Lu M, Alemseghed M. Surface-Engineered Inorganic Nanoporous Membranes for Vapor and Pervaporative Separations of Water⁻Ethanol Mixtures. MEMBRANES 2018; 8:membranes8040095. [PMID: 30322060 PMCID: PMC6316381 DOI: 10.3390/membranes8040095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2018] [Revised: 09/26/2018] [Accepted: 10/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Surface wettability-tailored porous ceramic/metallic membranes (in the tubular and planar disc form) were prepared and studied for both vapor-phase separation and liquid pervaporative separations of water-ethanol mixtures. Superhydrophobic nanoceramic membranes demonstrated more selective permeation of ethanol (relative to water) by cross-flow pervaporation of liquid ethanol–water mixture (10 wt % ethanol feed at 80 °C). In addition, both superhydrophilic and superhydrophobic membranes were tested for the vapor-phase separations of water–ethanol mixtures. Porous inorganic membranes having relatively large nanopores (up to 8-nm) demonstrated good separation selectivity with higher permeation flux through a non-molecular-sieving mechanism. Due to surface-enhanced separation selectivity, larger nanopore-sized membranes (~5–100 nm) can be employed for both pervaporation and vapor phase separations to obtain higher selectivity (e.g., permselectivity for ethanol of 13.9 during pervaporation and a vapor phase separation factor of 1.6), with higher flux due to larger nanopores than the traditional size-exclusion membranes (e.g., inorganic zeolite-based membranes having sub-nanometer pores). The prepared superhydrophobic porous inorganic membranes in this work showed good thermal stability (i.e., the large contact angle remains the same after 300 °C for 4 h) and chemical stability to ethanol, while the silica-textured superhydrophilic surfaced membranes can tolerate even higher temperatures. These surface-engineered metallic/ceramic nanoporous membranes should have better high-temperature tolerance for hot vapor processing than those reported for polymeric membranes.
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- Michael Z Hu
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA.
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA.
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Motta IL, Vicente JGP, Cardoso D. Properties and catalytic evaluation of nanometric X zeolites containing linear alkylammonium cations. MOLECULAR CATALYSIS 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mcat.2018.02.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Farzaneh A, Zhou M, Antzutkin ON, Bacsik Z, Hedlund J, Holmgren A, Grahn M. Adsorption of Butanol and Water Vapors in Silicalite-1 Films with a Low Defect Density. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2016; 32:11789-11798. [PMID: 27797215 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b03326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Pure silica zeolites are potentially hydrophobic and have therefore been considered to be interesting candidates for separating alcohols, e.g., 1-butanol, from water. Zeolites are traditionally synthesized at high pH, leading to the formation of intracrystalline defects in the form of silanol defects in the framework. These silanol groups introduce polar adsorption sites into the framework, potentially reducing the adsorption selectivity toward alcohols in alcohol/water mixtures. In contrast, zeolites prepared at neutral pH using the fluoride route contain significantly fewer defects. Such crystals should show a much higher butanol/water selectivity than crystals prepared in traditional hydroxide (OH-) media. Moreover, silanol groups are present at the external surface of the zeolite crystals; therefore, minimizing the external surface of the studied adsorbent is important. In this work, we determine adsorption isotherms of 1-butanol and water in silicalite-1 films prepared in a fluoride (F-) medium using in situ attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy. This film was composed of well intergrown, plate-shaped b-oriented crystals, resulting in a low external area. Single-component adsorption isotherms of 1-butanol and water were determined in the temperature range of 35-80 °C. The 1-butanol isotherms were typical for an adsorbate showing a high affinity for a microporous material and a large increase in the amount adsorbed at low partial pressures of 1-butanol. The Langmuir-Freundlich model was successfully fitted to the 1-butanol isotherms, and the heat of adsorption was determined. Water showed a very low affinity for the adsorbent, and the amounts adsorbed were very similar to previous reports for large silicalite-1 crystals prepared in a fluoride medium. The sample also adsorbed much less water than did a reference silicalite-1(OH-) film containing a high density of internal defects.The results show that silicalite-1 films prepared in a F- medium with a low density of defects and external area are very promising for the selective recovery of 1-butanol from aqueous solutions.
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- Department of Physics, Warwick University , CV4 7AL Coventry, United Kingdom
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- Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University , SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Yu L, Korelskiy D, Grahn M, Hedlund J. Very high flux MFI membranes for alcohol recovery via pervaporation at high temperature and pressure. Sep Purif Technol 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2015.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Rangnekar N, Mittal N, Elyassi B, Caro J, Tsapatsis M. Zeolite membranes – a review and comparison with MOFs. Chem Soc Rev 2015; 44:7128-54. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cs00292c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 490] [Impact Index Per Article: 54.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The latest developments in zeolite and MOF membranes are reviewed, with an emphasis on synthesis techniques. Industrial applications, hydrothermal stability, polymer-supported and mixed matrix membranes are some of the aspects discussed.
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- N. Rangnekar
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
- Minneapolis
- USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
- Minneapolis
- USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
- Minneapolis
- USA
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- Institut für Physikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie der Leibniz Universität Hannover
- D-30167 Hannover
- Germany
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
- Minneapolis
- USA
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Maxwell–Stefan modeling of high flux tubular silicalite-1 membranes for CO2 removal from CO2/H2 gas mixtures. J Memb Sci 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2014.08.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Zuo J, Lai JY, Chung TS. In-situ synthesis and cross-linking of polyamide thin film composite (TFC) membranes for bioethanol applications. J Memb Sci 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2014.01.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Shao J, Zhan Z, Li J, Wang Z, Li K, Yan Y. Zeolite NaA membranes supported on alumina hollow fibers: Effect of support resistances on pervaporation performance. J Memb Sci 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2013.09.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Zhou M, Grahn M, Zhou H, Holmgren A, Hedlund J. The facile assembly of nanocrystals by optimizing humidity. Chem Commun (Camb) 2014; 50:14261-4. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cc06603k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Humidity and substrate properties are considered coordinately in the assembly of nano-sized crystals. The nanocrystal monolayers with thicknesses of 20–100 nm show large-area uniformity and excellent orientations.
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- Ming Zhou
- Chemical Technology
- Luleå University of Technology
- SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden
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- Chemical Technology
- Luleå University of Technology
- SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden
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- Chemical Technology
- Luleå University of Technology
- SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden
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- Chemical Technology
- Luleå University of Technology
- SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden
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- Chemical Technology
- Luleå University of Technology
- SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden
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Leppäjärvi T, Malinen I, Korelskiy D, Hedlund J, Tanskanen J. Maxwell–Stefan Modeling of Ethanol and Water Unary Pervaporation through a High-Silica MFI Zeolite Membrane. Ind Eng Chem Res 2013. [DOI: 10.1021/ie400814z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Tiina Leppäjärvi
- Department
of Process and Environmental Engineering, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 4300, FIN-90014 Oulu, Finland
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- Department
of Process and Environmental Engineering, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 4300, FIN-90014 Oulu, Finland
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- Chemical
Technology, Luleå University of Technology, SE-97187 Luleå, Sweden
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- Chemical
Technology, Luleå University of Technology, SE-97187 Luleå, Sweden
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- Department
of Process and Environmental Engineering, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 4300, FIN-90014 Oulu, Finland
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Ong YK, Chung TS. Pushing the limits of high performance dual-layer hollow fiber fabricated via I2PS process in dehydration of ethanol. AIChE J 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/aic.14149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Yee Kang Ong
- Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; National University of Singapore; 10 Kent Ridge Crescent 4 Engineering Drive 4 Singapore 117576 Singapore
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- Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; National University of Singapore; 10 Kent Ridge Crescent 4 Engineering Drive 4 Singapore 117576 Singapore
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Jafari M, Nouri A, Kazemimoghadam M, Mohammadi T. Investigations on hydrothermal synthesis parameters in preparation of nanoparticles of LTA zeolite with the aid of TMAOH. POWDER TECHNOL 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2012.12.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Drobek M, Motuzas J, Durand V, Duchateau M, Charmette C, Hertz A, Loubat C, Julbe A. Evaluation of a new supercritical CO2-assisted deposition method for preparing gas selective polymer/zeolite composite membranes. J Memb Sci 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2012.11.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Gao X, Zou X, Zhang F, Zhang S, Ma H, Zhao N, Zhu G. Eco-friendly fabrication of hydrophilic ZSM-5 membranes for alcohol upgrading. Chem Commun (Camb) 2013; 49:8839-41. [DOI: 10.1039/c3cc44515a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Zhou M, Hedlund J. Assembly of oriented iron oxide and zeolite crystals via biopolymer films. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1039/c2jm35068h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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