Gas transfer in supported Langmuir-Blodgett films of polymeric lipids

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 1989

Authors

stroeve, pieter (Author) FEUP; coelho, manuel an (Author) Other; dong, shengxiong (Author) Other; lam, paul (Author) Other; coleman, lawrence b (Author) Other; fiske, thomas g (Author) Other; ringsdorf, helmut (Author) Other; schneider, jurgen (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Thin Solid Films

Vol. 180

Pages: 241-248

ISSN: 0040-6090

Publisher: Elsevier

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Authenticus ID: P-008-P4T

DOI: 10.1016/0040-6090(89)90079-5

Abstract (EN): Asymmetric membranes were fabricated by depositing Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films of polymeric lipids on porous supports. Three polymeric lipids were used for deposition. Up to 50 Y-type layers were deposited on one side of the porous supports of polypropylene (Celgard) and polytetrafluoroethylene (GORE-TEX) membranes. A marked decrease in gas transfer with increasing number of LB layers was observed for the asymmetric membranes fabricated with the porous polypropylene. Gas transfer in the asymmetric membranes using porous polytetrafluoroethylene remained unchanged with the number of polymeric layers. The LB multilayers on polypropylene showed no evidence for pores or cracks as determined by scanning electron microscopy (at a magnification of 40000×), but the LB multilayers on polytetrafluoroethylene revealed large cracks. The gas permeabilities of nitrogen, methane and carbon dioxide in the polypropylene-based asymmetric membranes were a function of the molecular weight of the gas for two of the three polymers.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 8