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  • Title: Amorphous Fluoropolymer Membrane for Gas Separation Applications.
    Author: Son TY, Jeong MA, Nam SY.
    Journal: J Nanosci Nanotechnol; 2018 Sep 01; 18(9):6206-6212. PubMed ID: 29677768.
    Abstract:
    Amorphous fluoropolymers have been studied in the past few decades and received extensive attention due to their unique and useful properties. One of the remarkable properties of amorphous fluoropolymers is high fractional free volume (FFV), and they tend to retain large amounts of solvent inside their polymer chains. In this study, amorphous flouoropolymer membranes were employed to examine the influences of the residual solvent and drying condition on the thermal properties, gas permeation behavior, and structure change by the polymer chains. Thermal properties of the produced membranes were characterized by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and a thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) to verify the effects of residual solvent. The residual solvent content and the glass transition temperature (Tg) of amorphous fluoropolymer membranes prepared with both solvents decrease with increasing drying temperature. The effect of the thermal treatment method on the d-spacing between the polymer chains of the prepared membranes was investigated using X-ray diffraction (XRD). The d-spacing decreased with drying below the Tg whereas it drastically increased near the Tg because of chain relaxation. From these phenomena, the helium permeability of the membranes treated at 120 °C radically increased. However, the oxygen and nitrogen permeability decreased with decreasing residual solvent content. The glass transition range shifted to higher temperature, from 75 °C to 133 °C, depending on the reduced amount of residual solvent.
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