Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Composite membranes having intrinsic microporosity
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Application No.: US14352074Application Date: 2012-10-18
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Publication No.: US10434479B2Publication Date: 2019-10-08
- Inventor: Andrew Guy Livingston , Maria Fernanda Jimenez Solomon
- Applicant: IP2IPO INNOVATIONS LIMITED
- Applicant Address: GB London
- Assignee: IP2IPO Innovations Limited
- Current Assignee: IP2IPO Innovations Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB London
- Agency: Barnes & Thornburg LLP
- Priority: GB1117950.4 20111018
- International Application: PCT/GB2012/052576 WO 20121018
- International Announcement: WO2013/057492 WO 20130425
- Main IPC: B01D71/72
- IPC: B01D71/72 ; B01D67/00 ; B01D69/10 ; B01D69/12 ; B01D71/48 ; B01D53/22 ; B01D61/02

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a composite membrane for gas separation and/or nanofiltration of a feed stream solution comprising a solvent and dissolved solutes and showing preferential rejection of the solutes. The composite membrane comprises a separating layer with intrinsic microporosity. The separating layer is suitably formed by interfacial polymerization on a support membrane. Suitably, at least one of the monomers used in the interfacial polymerization reaction should possess concavity, resulting in a network polymer with interconnected nanopores and a membrane with enhanced permeability. The support membrane may be optionally impregnated with a conditioning agent and may be optionally stable in organic solvents, particularly in polar aprotic solvents. The top layer of the composite membrane is optionally capped with functional groups to change the surface chemistry. The composite membrane may be cured in the oven to enhance rejection. Finally, the composite membrane may be treated with an activating solvent prior to nanofiltration.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140251897A1 MEMBRANES FOR SEPARATION Public/Granted day:2014-09-11
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