Isolation of propane (C 3 H 8) from propylene (C 3 H 6) is essential in petrochemical
industries to obtain purified C 3 H 6. The commonly practiced cryogenic distillation for C 3 H …

With a wide range of applications, from energy and environmental engineering, such as in
gas separations and water purification, to biomedical engineering and packaging, glassy …

Efficient separation of xenon (Xe) and krypton (Kr) mixtures through vacuum swing
adsorption (VSA) is considered the most attractive route to reduce energy consumption, but …

Membrane‐based separation is poised to reduce the operation cost of propylene/propane
separation; however, identifying a suitable molecular sieve for membrane development is …

Thermally induced chemical crosslinking has attracted substantial attention for fabricating
plasticization resistant membranes due to the facile structure tunability that enables the …

Plasticization is a well-understood drawback of polymer membranes in many applications;
however, recent studies have demonstrated surprising advantages of this phenomenon for …

Gas separation membranes are expected to play a significant role in green house reduction,
renewable energy production, and energy savings for separations. However, newly …

Polyimides with excellent physicochemical properties have aroused a great deal of interest
as gas separation membranes; however, the severe performance decay due to CO2 …

Polymers with intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) have attracted much attention from the
membrane community due to the nature of high fractional free volume and high gas …

In this work, two series of poly (benzoxazole-co-imide) membranes were synthesized
through thermal rearrangement (TR) reaction at 450° C. Different kinds and proportions of …