Covalent organic frameworks for membrane separation.

By Shushan Yuan, Xin Li, JunYong Zhu, Gang Zhang, P. Van Puyvelde, B. Van der Bruggen. Chemical Society Reviews, 2019

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Covalent organic frameworks (COFs), which are constructed from organic linkers, are a new class of crystalline porous materials comprising periodically extended and covalently bound network structures. The intrinsic structures and the tailorable organic linkers endow COFs with a low density, large surface area, tunable pore size and structure, and facilely-tailored functionality, attracting increasing interests in different fields including membrane separations. Exciting research activities ranging from fabrication strategies to separation applications of COF-based membranes have appeared. This review analyzes the synthesis and applications of diverse continuous/discontinuous COF membranes, such as COF-based mixed matrix membranes (MMMs), COF-based thin film nanocomposite (TFN) membranes, and free-standing COF films. Special attention was given to pore size, stability, hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity and surface charge of COFs in view of determining proper COFs for membrane fabrication, along with the approaches to fabricate COF-based membranes, such as blending, in situ growth, layer-by-layer stacking and interfacial polymerization (IP). Moreover, applications of COF-based membranes in gas separation, water treatment (deaslination and dye removal), organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN), pervaporation and fuel cell are disscussed. Finally, we illustrate the advantages and disadvantages of COF-based membranes through a comparison with MOF-based membranes, and the remaining challenges and future opportunities in this field.

Subfields: Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering

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• Pervaporation membrane materials: Recent trends and perspectives (2021, background): “Covalent organic framework (COF), a new class of porous crystalline polymers, are promising membrane materials owing to their well-defined and highly ordered pore channels [132].”