The influence of amine structure on the mechanism of CO2 facilitated transport across amine-functionalized polymer membranes: An operando spectroscopy study
The influence of amine structure on the mechanism of CO2 facilitated transport across amine-functionalized polymer membranes: An operando spectroscopy study
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DOI:
10.1016/j.memsci.2023.122163
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发表时间:
2023-10
影响因子:
9.5
通讯作者:
Hui Xu;Sarah G. Pate;C. O'Brien
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作者:
Hui Xu;Sarah G. Pate;C. O'Brien
The influence of the amine structure (secondary, tertiary, pyridinic) in amine-functionalized polymeric membranes on the mechanism of CO2transport across the membrane is investigated in this work usingoperandosurface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) andin-situtransmission FTIR spectroscopy. Specifically, the mechanism of CO2transport across poly-N-methyl-N-vinylamine (PMVAm), poly-N, N-dimethyl-N-vinylamine (PDVAm), and poly(4-vinylpyridine) (P4VP) membranes was investigated by measuring CO2permeances/selectivities of the membranes and simultaneously detecting CO2transport intermediates (e.g., carbamate, bicarbonate) formed in the membrane under operating conditions using SERS and FTIR spectroscopy. While permeation measurements suggest that CO2moves across all membranes via a facilitated transport mechanism,operandoSERS andin-situFTIR results suggest that the molecular-level details of the facilitated transport process are highly sensitive to the structure of the amine functional group. For membranes with secondary (PMVAm) and tertiary (PDVAm) amines, CO2moves across the membrane as a mixture of both carbamate and bicarbonate species. For P4VP, which has pyridinic amine groups, no CO2-derived intermediates were detected suggesting a new facilitated transport mechanism involving weak interactions between CO2and the pyridinic nitrogen group without transformation of CO2into carbamate, bicarbonate, or other intermediate species. Such a facilitated transport mechanism has not been reported in the literature to our knowledge.