The hydrothermal stability of molecular sieve silica (MSS) membranes is an area of increasing research interest, in particular for applications such as membrane reactors and membrane gas separation of process streams containing hot steam. In these applications, gas streams are likely to contain water vapor, which reacts with the hydrophilic sites in the silica thin films resulting in chemical a...

The surface force apparatus (SFA) was utilized to obtain force-distance profiles between silica-supported membranes formed by Langmuir-Blodgett deposition of 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC). In the absence of a membrane, a long-range electrostatic repulsion and short-range steric repulsion are measured as a result of the deprotonation of silica in water and the roughness of t...

Using of nanocomposite membranes composed of polymer and inorganic nanoparticles is a novel method to enhance gas separation performance. In this study, membranes were fabricated from polyester (PE) containing silica (SiO2) nanoparticles and gas permeation properties of the resulting membranes were investigated. Morphology of the membranes, SiO2 distribution a...

Uncontrolled population growth and increased consumption of fossil fuels have led to the emission of pollutants and greenhouse gases. This is mostly a concern for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide because of its impact on global climate change1,2. The presence of carbon dioxide in the natural gas mixture can lead to lower heating value of gas, corrosion of processin...

The effect of the local structure Co-doped amorphous silica on hydrogen transport property was studied with aim to improve high-temperature hydrogen-permselectivity microporous silica-based membranes.

Proton exchange membranes for fuel cells were synthesized from the blend of copolymers of vinyl acetate-acrylic ester and styrene-acrylic ester, which were modified by sulfonation and addition of silica gel. Water uptake, ion exchange capacity, infrared spectroscopy and tensile tests were applied to characterize the prepared membranes. The results show that the prepared membranes with the proce...

Hybrid materials formed by the combination of inorganic components with organic polymers have emerged as a rapidly expanding and internationally competitive field research in polymer science. These show great promise many important applications where control surface properties, well structure interfacial interactions between two primary components, are determinant. In this paper, we present rev...

a new hybrid nanomaterial was developed by immobilization of phosphomolybdate anions on the surface of modified magnetite nanoparticles with quaternary phosphonium cations. silica coated magnetic nanoparticles supported phosphonium cations, ph3p+-scmnps, were prepared by covalent attachment of chloropropylsilyl groups on the surface of silica coated magnetite nanoparticles and next reaction wit...