WooRam Kang Lee, Albert S. Park, Sunghwan Park, Sang-Hee Baek, Kyung-Youl Lee, Ki Bong Lee, Sang-Hyup Lee, Jung-Hyun Hwang, Seung Sang Lee, Jong Suk 2024-01-20T07:34:51Z 2024-01-20T07:34:51Z 2021-09-05 2015-02 0376-7388 https://pubs.kist.re.kr/handle/201004/125796 Polysilsesquioxanes (PSSQs) are composite materials consisting of inorganic framework and organic functional groups. Their inherent dual characteristics offer various applications including microelectronics, optics and biosciences. For the first time, free standing ladder like PSSQ films were successfully prepared for gas separations, allowing practical applications in the membrane area. In order to fabricate a free-standing PSSQ film, a novel ladder-like poly(phenyl-co-glycicloxypropyl) silsescurioxanes with phenyl:glycicloxypropyl copolymer ratio of 6:4 (LPG64) vvere synthesized by a base-catalyzed sol-gel reaction. Moreover, the LPG64 films were thermally crosslinked with octa(arninoplienyl)-T8-silsesquioxane (OAPS) with different concentrations of OAPS. Single gas (i.e. He, H-2, CO2, O-2, N-2, and CH4) transport measurements were performed for the LPG64 as well as LPG64/0APS composite membranes. The LPG64 membrane exhibited a relatively high CO2 permeability of 47.88 Barrer compared to other gases with CO2/N-2 permselectivity of 30.5. The annealing effect on the transport results of the LPG64 membrane was negligible due to its rigid inorganic framework. Combination of our transport analysis and XRD characterization demonstrated that the addition of OAPS led to more dense chain packing, reducing permeability for all the gases tested in this work with increase in permselectivities. Especially, the LPG64/0APS (80/20 wt/wt) membrane improved He/N-2 and H-2/N-2 permselectivities by 98% and 80%, respectively, compared to those for neat LPG64 membranes. (C) 2014 Elsevier BY. All rights reserved. English ELSEVIER Free-standing, polysilsesquioxane-based inorganic/organic hybrid membranes for gas separations Article 10.1016/j.memsci.2014.10.024 1 JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE, v.475, pp.384 - 394 JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE 475 384 394 N scie scopus 000345982100040 2-s2.0-84910019806 Engineering, Chemical Polymer Science Engineering Polymer Science Article OLIGOMERIC SILSESQUIOXANES POSS LADDER-LIKE POLYSILSESQUIOXANES TRANSPORT PROPERTIES NANOCOMPOSITE POLYMERS POLYMERIZATION FILMS Crosslinking Gas separations Ladder-like polysilsesquioxane Free-standing composite membranes