Coordination polymer glass based mixed matrix membrane containing hydroxylated multi walled carbon nanotubes for enhanced CO2/N2 separation

Coordination polymer (CP) glasses offer high processability and permanent accessible pores, having promising potential in gas separation. However, their low porosity makes it difficult to prepare high-performance gas separation membranes. In this work, we combined the advantages of CP glasses and inorganic fillers, and selected ag Zn-P-dmbIm as the continuous phase and hydroxylated multi-walled carbon nanotubes (HMWCNTs) as the dispersed phase to prepare HMWCNTs/ ag Zn-P-dmbIm mixed matrix membranes (MMMs). The very favorable interfacial compatibility and excellent CO 2 /N 2 gas separation performance of the MMM-2 membrane were demonstrated by a series of characterizations. The test results revealed that the CO 2 permeability and ideal CO 2 /N 2 selectivity of MMM-2 membrane were 9776.8 Barrer and 31.1, respectively, which exceeded the Robeson 2019 upper bound. In addition, the well-defined long-term stability of the MMM-2 membrane lays the foundation for realizing gas separation membranes for industrial applications in practice. This provides a strategy for the subsequent preparation of CP glasses-based MMMs.