Paola Bernardo

TL;DR: In this paper, the most promising areas of research in gas separation, by considering the materials for membranes, the industrial applications of membrane gas separations, and finally the opportunities for the integration of membrane separation units in hybrid systems for the intensification of processes.

TL;DR: A shape-persistent ladder polymer consisting of benzene rings fused together by inflexible bridged bicyclic units has excellent potential for making membranes suitable for large-scale gas separations of commercial and environmental relevance.

TL;DR: A highly gas permeable polymer with exceptional size selectivity is prepared by fusing triptycene units together via a poly-merization reaction involving Tröger's base formation, which facilitates gas permeability data that lie well above the benchmark 2008 Robeson upper bounds for the important O2 /N2 and H2 / N2 gas pairs.

TL;DR: In this paper, mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) based on the polymer of intrinsic microporosity PIM-1 and the zeolitic imidazolate framework ZIF-8 were prepared and their permeation and sorption properties investigated.

TL;DR: A highly gas-permeable polymer with enhanced selectivities is prepared using spirobifluorene as the main structural unit, which facilitates gas permeability data that lie above the 2008 Robeson upper bound, which is the universal performance indicator for polymer gas separation membranes.