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Wang F, Cheng T, Zhou G. Thermoplastic Polyurethane-poly( N-isopropylacrylamide) Copolymer for Selective Uptake of Alcohol from Aqueous Solution. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 17:2795. [PMID: 38930165 PMCID: PMC11205238 DOI: 10.3390/ma17122795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2024] [Revised: 05/29/2024] [Accepted: 06/04/2024] [Indexed: 06/28/2024]
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Ethanol possesses high economic value, but as an industrial waste, it poses harm to human health and the environment. The paper describes the preparation of a thermoplastic polyurethane-poly(n-isopropylacrylamide) (TPU-PNIPAM) copolymer designed to selectively uptake alcohol in aqueous solution. The material was created by bonding TPU and PNIPAM together through intermolecular hydrogen bonds, enhancing its hydrophobic properties and making it easier to interact with alcohol molecules. As the amount of PNIPAM in TPU increases, the number of hydrophobic isopropyl groups in TPU-PNIPAM also increases, leading to an enhanced selective uptake ability of TPU-PNIPAM for alcohols in aqueous solution. When the temperature reaches 55 °C, the hydrophobic groups in TPU-PNIPAM are more exposed, further enhancing the selective uptake ability of TPU-PNIPAM for alcohols in aqueous solution. TPU-PNIPAM demonstrates selective preferential uptake for various concentrations and types of alcohol in aqueous solutions. The material's selective uptake performance for alcohols increases with their hydrophobicity, so TPU-PNIPAM exhibited the best adsorption performance for a 10 wt% n-propanol solution under the combined effect of steric hindrance. In addition, TPU-PNIPAM exhibited selective adsorption for other organic solvents, which demonstrated the universality of TPU-PNIPAM in removing contaminants from aqueous solutions.
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- College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130061, China; (F.W.); (T.C.)
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Boukair K, Salazar JM, Weber G, Badawi M, Ouaskit S, Simon JM. Toward the development of sensors for lung cancer: The adsorption of 1-propanol on hydrophobic zeolites. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:214712. [PMID: 38059548 DOI: 10.1063/5.0168230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2023] [Accepted: 11/07/2023] [Indexed: 12/08/2023] Open
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A healthy breath is mainly composed of water, carbon dioxide, molecular nitrogen, and oxygen and it contains many species, in small quantities, which are related to the ambient atmosphere and the metabolism. The breath of a person affected by lung cancer presents a concentration of 1-propanol higher than usual. In this context, the development of specific sensors to detect 1-propanol from breath is of high interest. The amount of propanol usually detected on the breath is of few ppb; this small quantity is a handicap for a reliable diagnostic. This limitation can be overcome if the sensor is equipped with a pre-concentrator. Our studies aim to provide an efficient material playing this role. This will contribute to the development of reliable and easy to use lung cancer detectors. For this, we investigate the properties of a few hydrophobic porous materials (chabazite, silicalite-1, and dealuminated faujasite). Hydrophobic structures are used to avoid saturation of materials by the water present in the exhaled breath. Our experimental and simulation results suggest that silicalite -1 (MFI) is the most suitable structure to be used as a pre-concentrator.
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- K Boukair
- Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Hassan 2 University, Casablanca, Morroco
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- ICB-UMR 6303 CNRS, Bourgogne Franche Comté University, Dijon, France
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- ICB-UMR 6303 CNRS, Bourgogne Franche Comté University, Dijon, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie Théoriques, University of Lorraine, Nancy, France
- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, L2CM, F-57000 Metz, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Hassan 2 University, Casablanca, Morroco
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- ICB-UMR 6303 CNRS, Bourgogne Franche Comté University, Dijon, France
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Radhakrishnan S, Lejaegere C, Duerinckx K, Lo WS, Morais AF, Dom D, Chandran CV, Hermans I, Martens JA, Breynaert E. Hydrogen bonding to oxygen in siloxane bonds drives liquid phase adsorption of primary alcohols in high-silica zeolites. MATERIALS HORIZONS 2023; 10:3702-3711. [PMID: 37401863 PMCID: PMC10463557 DOI: 10.1039/d3mh00888f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2023] [Accepted: 06/27/2023] [Indexed: 07/05/2023]
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Upon liquid phase adsorption of C1-C5 primary alcohols on high silica MFI zeolites (Si/Al = 11.5-140), the concentration of adsorbed molecules largely exceeds the concentration of traditional adsorption sites: Brønsted acid and defect sites. Combining quantitative in situ1H MAS NMR, qualitative multinuclear NMR and IR spectroscopy, hydrogen bonding of the alcohol function to oxygen atoms of the zeolite siloxane bridges (Si-O-Si) was shown to drive the additional adsorption. This mechanism co-exists with chemi- and physi-sorption on Brønsted acid and defect sites and does not exclude cooperative effects from dispersive interactions.
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- Sambhu Radhakrishnan
- Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis - Characterization and Application Team (COK-KAT), KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F Box 2461, 3001-Heverlee, Belgium.
- NMRCoRe - NMR/X-Ray platform for Convergence Research, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F Box 2461, 3001-Heverlee, Belgium
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- Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis - Characterization and Application Team (COK-KAT), KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F Box 2461, 3001-Heverlee, Belgium.
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- Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis - Characterization and Application Team (COK-KAT), KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F Box 2461, 3001-Heverlee, Belgium.
- NMRCoRe - NMR/X-Ray platform for Convergence Research, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F Box 2461, 3001-Heverlee, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis - Characterization and Application Team (COK-KAT), KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F Box 2461, 3001-Heverlee, Belgium.
- NMRCoRe - NMR/X-Ray platform for Convergence Research, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F Box 2461, 3001-Heverlee, Belgium
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- Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis - Characterization and Application Team (COK-KAT), KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F Box 2461, 3001-Heverlee, Belgium.
- NMRCoRe - NMR/X-Ray platform for Convergence Research, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F Box 2461, 3001-Heverlee, Belgium
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- Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis - Characterization and Application Team (COK-KAT), KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F Box 2461, 3001-Heverlee, Belgium.
- NMRCoRe - NMR/X-Ray platform for Convergence Research, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F Box 2461, 3001-Heverlee, Belgium
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- Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis - Characterization and Application Team (COK-KAT), KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F Box 2461, 3001-Heverlee, Belgium.
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Wisconsin Energy Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1552 University Ave, Madison, WI 53726, USA
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- Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis - Characterization and Application Team (COK-KAT), KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F Box 2461, 3001-Heverlee, Belgium.
- NMRCoRe - NMR/X-Ray platform for Convergence Research, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F Box 2461, 3001-Heverlee, Belgium
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- Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis - Characterization and Application Team (COK-KAT), KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F Box 2461, 3001-Heverlee, Belgium.
- NMRCoRe - NMR/X-Ray platform for Convergence Research, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F Box 2461, 3001-Heverlee, Belgium
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Wallbridge SP, Archer S, Elsegood MRJ, Wagner JL, Christie JK, Dann SE. An investigation into the adsorption mechanism of n-butanol by ZIF-8: a combined experimental and ab initio molecular dynamics approach. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:19911-19922. [PMID: 37458457 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp02493h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/27/2023]
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The zeolitic imidazolate framework, ZIF-8, has been shown by experimental methods to have a maximum saturation adsorption capacity of 0.36 g g-1 for n-butanol from aqueous solution, equivalent to a loading of 14 butanol molecules per unit cell or 7 molecules per sodalite β-cage. Diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy (DRIFTS) shows the presence of hydrogen bonding between adsorbed butanol molecules within the cage; the presence of three different O-H stretching modes indicates the formation of butanol clusters of varying size. Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations show the formation of intermolecular hydrogen bonding between the butanol molecules, with an average hydrogen-bond coordination number of 0.9 after 15 ps simulation time. The simulations also uniquely demonstrate the presence of weaker interactions between the alcohol O-H group and the π-orbital of the imidazole ring on the internal surface of the cage during early stages of adsorption. The calculated adsorption energy per butanol molecule is -33.7 kJ mol-1, confirming that the butanol is only weakly bound, driven primarily by the hydrogen bonding. Solid-state MAS NMR spectra suggest that the adsorbed butanol molecules possess a reasonable degree of mobility in their adsorbed state, rather than being rigidly held in specific sites. 2D 13C-1H heteronuclear correlation (HETCOR) experiments show interactions between the butanol aliphatic chain and the ZIF-8 framework experimentally, suggesting that O-H interactions with the π-orbital are only short lived. The insight gained from these results will allow the design of more efficient ways of recovering and isolating n-butanol, an important biofuel, from low-concentration solutions.
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- Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.
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Gómez-Álvarez P, Noya EG, Lomba E. Structural study of water/alcohol mixtures adsorbed in MFI and MEL porosils. J Mol Liq 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2022.120527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Tang YB, Xie SJ. Structure and dynamics of a water/methanol mixture confined in zeolitic imidazolate framework ZIF-8 from atomistic simulations. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:5220-5232. [PMID: 35167632 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp05571b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A classical atomistic simulation study is reported for the microscopic structure and dynamics of a water/methanol mixture confined in flexible nanoporous zeolitic imidazolate framework ZIF-8. Both the radial density distribution and vivid two-dimensional density profile demonstrate that methanol molecules can roughly be viewed as "embedded" between two layers of water molecules to form a "sandwich" structure. The reason for the formation of such a specific structure is explained based on the hydrogen-bonding state and the strength of various hydrogen bonds. The investigation of guest molecular diffusion shows that the self-diffusion coefficient of confined water is generally one to two orders of magnitude smaller than that of bulk water. In addition, the dependence of the self-diffusion coefficient on loading is non-monotonic: the self-diffusion coefficient firstly shows a significant increase and then decreases at higher loading. Moreover, both the structure and dynamics of the hydrogen bond (HB) network of confined water molecules are investigated in a spatially resolved manner. The results indicate that both the HB structure and dynamics of water molecules near the ZIF-8 surface deviate significantly from those of bulk water. However, while water molecules located at the pore center are relatively similar to bulk water molecules with respect to the HB structure, they exhibit strong slowdown in HB dynamics when compared with bulk water. This simulation study elucidates in detail the structural and dynamical properties of a water/methanol mixture in nanoscopic ZIF-8 confinement, which is expected to provide a deep insight into the role of porous fillers, such as ZIF-8, in improving the performance of the dehydration of alcohols via pervaporation and other related processes.
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- Yu-Bo Tang
- Center for Membrane Separation and Water Science & Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, P. R. China.
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- Center for Membrane Separation and Water Science & Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, P. R. China.
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Rieck genannt Best F, Mundstock A, Kißling PA, Richter H, Hindricks KDJ, Huang A, Behrens P, Caro J. Boosting Dimethylamine Formation Selectivity in a Membrane Reactor by In Situ Water Removal. Ind Eng Chem Res 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.1c04149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Felix Rieck genannt Best
- Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, Callinstraße 3A, Hannover 30167, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, Callinstraße 3A, Hannover 30167, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, Callinstraße 3A, Hannover 30167, Germany
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- Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems, Fraunhofer IKTS, Michael-Faraday-Straße 1, Hermsdorf 07629, Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, Callinstraße 9, Hannover 30167, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD (Photonics, Optics, and Engineering − Innovation Across Disciplines), Welfengarten 1A, 30167 Hannover, Germany
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Processes, Department of Chemistry, East China Normal University, Dongchuan Road 500, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, Callinstraße 9, Hannover 30167, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD (Photonics, Optics, and Engineering − Innovation Across Disciplines), Welfengarten 1A, 30167 Hannover, Germany
- Laboratory of Nano and Quantum Engineering, Leibniz University Hannover, Schneiderberg 39, 30167 Hannover, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, Callinstraße 3A, Hannover 30167, Germany
- Laboratory of Nano and Quantum Engineering, Leibniz University Hannover, Schneiderberg 39, 30167 Hannover, Germany
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Wushan Road 381, Guangzhou 510640, China
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Gutiérrez-Sevillano JJ, Martin-Calvo A, Dubbeldam D, Calero S. Modifying the hydrophobic nature of MAF-6. Sep Purif Technol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2021.119422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Krishna R, van Baten JM. How Reliable Is the Ideal Adsorbed Solution Theory for the Estimation of Mixture Separation Selectivities in Microporous Crystalline Adsorbents? ACS OMEGA 2021; 6:15499-15513. [PMID: 34151128 PMCID: PMC8210411 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c02136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2021] [Accepted: 05/25/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Microporous crystalline adsorbents such as zeolites and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have potential use in a wide variety of separation applications. The adsorption selectivity S ads is a key metric that quantifies the efficacy of any microporous adsorbent in mixture separations. The Ideal Adsorbed Solution Theory (IAST) is commonly used for estimating the value of S ads, with unary isotherms of the constituent guests as data inputs. There are two basic tenets underlying the development of the IAST. The first tenet mandates a homogeneous distribution of adsorbates within the pore landscape. The second tenet requires the surface area occupied by a guest molecule in the mixture to be the same as that for the corresponding pure component. Configurational-bias Monte Carlo (CBMC) simulations are employed in this article to highlight several scenarios in which the IAST fails to provide a quantitatively correct description of mixture adsorption equilibrium due to a failure to conform to either of the two tenets underpinning the IAST. For CO2 capture with cation-exchanged zeolites and MOFs with open metal sites, there is congregation of CO2 around the cations and unsaturated metal atoms, resulting in failure of the IAST due to an inhomogeneous distribution of adsorbates in the pore space. Thermodynamic non-idealities also arise due to the preferential location of CO2 molecules at the window regions of 8-ring zeolites such as DDR and CHA or within pockets of MOR and AFX zeolites. Thermodynamic non-idealities are evidenced for water/alcohol mixtures due to molecular clustering engendered by hydrogen bonding. It is also demonstrated that thermodynamic non-idealities can be strong enough to cause selectivity reversals, which are not anticipated by the IAST.
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Krishna R, van Baten JM. Using Molecular Simulations to Unravel the Benefits of Characterizing Mixture Permeation in Microporous Membranes in Terms of the Spreading Pressure. ACS OMEGA 2020; 5:32769-32780. [PMID: 33376915 PMCID: PMC7759009 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c05269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2020] [Accepted: 11/30/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The separation performance of microporous crystalline materials in membrane constructs is dictated by a combination of mixture adsorption and intracrystalline diffusion characteristics; the permeation selectivity S perm is a product of the adsorption selectivity S ads and the diffusion selectivity, S diff. The primary objective of this article is to gain fundamental insights into S ads and S diff by use of molecular simulations. We performed configurational-bias Monte Carlo (CBMC) simulations of mixture adsorption equilibrium and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of guest self-diffusivities of a number of binary mixtures of light gaseous molecules (CO2, CH4, N2, H2, and C2H6) in a variety of microporous hosts of different pore dimensions and topologies. Irrespective of the bulk gas compositions and bulk gas fugacities, the adsorption selectivity, S ads, is found to be uniquely determined by the adsorption potential, Φ, a convenient and practical proxy for the spreading pressure π that is calculable using the ideal adsorbed solution theory for mixture adsorption equilibrium. The adsorption potential Φ is also a proxy for the pore occupancy and is the thermodynamically appropriate yardstick to determine the loading and composition dependences of intracrystalline diffusivities and diffusion selectivities, S diff. When compared at the same Φ, the component permeabilities, Π i for CO2, CH4, and N2, determinable from CBMC/MD data, are found to be independent of the partners in the various mixtures investigated and have practically the same values as the values for the corresponding unary permeabilities. In all investigated systems, the H2 permeability in a mixture is significantly lower than the corresponding unary value. These reported results have important practical consequences in process development and are also useful for screening of materials for use as membrane devices.
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