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Photo-induced sol-gel processing for low-temperature fabrication of high-performance silsesquioxane membranes for use
Mai Nishibayashi1, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Masamoto Uenishi
1Department of Chemical Engineering, Hiroshima University, 1-4-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8527, Japan. tsuru@hiroshima-u.ac.jp.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|May 30, 2015
Abstract:
Silsesquioxane (SQ) membranes derived from 3-methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane and bis(trimethoxysilyl)ethane were successfully fabricated at low temperature via photo-induced sol-gel processing. Radical and cationic polymerization of SQ membranes showed high degrees of separation factor and permeance for water/isopropanol separation in pervaporation.
