TY - JOUR
T1 - Crystalline 2D Covalent Organic Framework Membranes for High-Flux Organic Solvent Nanofiltration
AU - Shinde, Digambar
AU - Sheng, Guan
AU - Li, Xiang
AU - Ostwal, Mayur
AU - Emwas, Abdul-Hamid M.
AU - Huang, Kuo-Wei
AU - Lai, Zhiping
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-02-19
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): FCC/1/1972-19-01, BAS/1/1375-01-01
Acknowledgements: The work is supported by KAUST center competitive fund FCC/1/1972-19-01 and KAUST baseline fund BAS/1/1375-01-01.
PY - 2018/10/5
Y1 - 2018/10/5
N2 - Two-dimensional (2D) covalent organic framework (COF) materials have the most suitable microstructure for membrane applications in order to achieve both high flux and high selectivity. Here, we report the synthesis of a crystalline TFP-DHF 2D COF membrane constructed from two precursors of 1,3,5-triformylphloroglucinol (TFP) and 9,9-dihexylfluorene-2,7-diamine (DHF) through the Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) method, for the first time. A single COF layer is precisely four-unit-cell thick and can be transferred to different support surfaces layer-by-layer. The TFP-DHF 2D COF membrane supported on anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) porous supports displayed remarkable permeabilities for both polar and nonpolar organic solvents, which were approximately 100 times higher than that of the amorphous membranes prepared by the same procedure and similar to the best of the reported polymer membranes. The transport mechanism through the TFP-DHF 2D COF membrane was found to be a viscous flow coupled with a strong slip boundary enhancement, which was also different from those of the amorphous polymer membranes. The membrane exhibited a steep molecular sieving with a molecular weight retention onset of approximately 600 Da and a molecular weight cut-off of approximately 900 Da. The substantial performance enhancement was attributed to the structural change from an amorphous structure to a well-defined ordered porous structure, which clearly demonstrated the high potential for the application of 2D COFs as the next generation of membrane materials.
AB - Two-dimensional (2D) covalent organic framework (COF) materials have the most suitable microstructure for membrane applications in order to achieve both high flux and high selectivity. Here, we report the synthesis of a crystalline TFP-DHF 2D COF membrane constructed from two precursors of 1,3,5-triformylphloroglucinol (TFP) and 9,9-dihexylfluorene-2,7-diamine (DHF) through the Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) method, for the first time. A single COF layer is precisely four-unit-cell thick and can be transferred to different support surfaces layer-by-layer. The TFP-DHF 2D COF membrane supported on anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) porous supports displayed remarkable permeabilities for both polar and nonpolar organic solvents, which were approximately 100 times higher than that of the amorphous membranes prepared by the same procedure and similar to the best of the reported polymer membranes. The transport mechanism through the TFP-DHF 2D COF membrane was found to be a viscous flow coupled with a strong slip boundary enhancement, which was also different from those of the amorphous polymer membranes. The membrane exhibited a steep molecular sieving with a molecular weight retention onset of approximately 600 Da and a molecular weight cut-off of approximately 900 Da. The substantial performance enhancement was attributed to the structural change from an amorphous structure to a well-defined ordered porous structure, which clearly demonstrated the high potential for the application of 2D COFs as the next generation of membrane materials.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/628913
UR - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.8b08788
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85055284346&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1021/jacs.8b08788
DO - 10.1021/jacs.8b08788
M3 - Article
C2 - 30289708
AN - SCOPUS:85055284346
VL - 140
SP - 14342
EP - 14349
JO - Journal of the American Chemical Society
JF - Journal of the American Chemical Society
SN - 0002-7863
IS - 43
ER -