Interfacial engineering of a polymer–MOF composite by in situ vitrification

Rijia Lin; Jingwei Hou; Mengran Li; Zhanke Wang; Lei Ge; Shichun Li; Simon Smart; Zhonghua Zhu; Thomas D. Bennett; Vicki Chen

doi:10.1039/D0CC00664E

Interfacial engineering of a polymer–MOF composite by in situ vitrification†

Rijia Lin,

^a Jingwei Hou,

*^a Mengran Li,

^a Zhanke Wang,^a Lei Ge,

^b Shichun Li,

^c Simon Smart,^ad Zhonghua Zhu,

^a Thomas D. Bennett

^e and Vicki Chen^a

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^a School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia
E-mail: jingwei.hou@uq.edu.au

^b Centre for Future Materials, University of Southern Queensland, Queensland 4300, Australia

^c Institute of Chemical Materials, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang 621900, P. R. China

^d Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation, The University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Australia

^e Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Abstract

Non-stoichoimetric crystalline ZIF-62 was used as the filler for a 6FDA-DAM polyimide-based composite membrane. In situ melting and vitrification of ZIF-62 was then performed, to yield the ZIF-62 glass phase (a_gZIF-62), within the polymer matrix. Focus ion beam scanning electron microscopy (FIB-SEM), thermal characterisation and membrane separation tests demonstrate the filling of voids at the MOF/polymer interface from the liquid phase of ZIF-62.

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Interfacial engineering of a polymer–MOF composite by in situ vitrification†

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