Richard Malpass-Evans

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: An unprecedented hydroxide conductivity is obtained at a relatively a low ion-exchange capacity under optimal operating conditions, and the exceptional anion conductivity appears related to the intrinsic microporosity of the charged polymer matrix, which facilitates rapid anion transport.

TL;DR: A new approach to designing membranes with narrow molecular-sized channels and hydrophilic functionality that enable fast transport of salt ions and high size-exclusion selectivity towards small organic molecules is reported.

TL;DR: In this paper, a highly gas permeable polyimide with improved molecular sieving properties is produced by using a bisanhydride monomer based on the rigid ethanoanthracene unit.