Triptycene induced enhancement of membrane gas selectivity for microporous Tröger's base polymers.

Carta, Mariolino; Croad, Matthew; Malpass-Evans, Richard; Jansen, Johannes C; Bernardo, Paola; Clarizia, Gabriele; Friess, Karel; Lanč, Marek et al. · Adv Mater · 2014

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

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. The extreme rigidity of this polymer of intrinsic microporosity (PIM-Trip-TB) facilitates gas permeability data that lie well above the benchmark 2008 Robeson upper bounds for the important O2 /N2 and H2 /N2 gas pairs.