NH3 separation membranes with self-assembled gas highways induced by protic ionic liquids

As ecological pollution and resource waste caused by NH 3 emission become increasingly serious, thus the separation and recovery of NH 3 from exhausted gases is of great significance both for environment and economy. Herein, we present a kind of novel ionic liquids (ILs)-based hybrid membranes for efficient NH 3 separation. Protic ILs (PILs) are adopted to form self-assembled gas highways in the hybrid membranes with the nanostructures of a middle-sulfonated pentablock copolymer, exhibiting extremely high NH 3 affinity and gas diffusion. The highest NH 3 permeability and ideal NH 3 /N 2 selectivity is up to 2711 Barrer and 1407 at ambient temperature and 1 bar, much superior to the state-of-the-art membranes reported. The results indicated that the novel IL-based hybrid membranes are promising candidates for high-efficient NH 3 separation and purification.