Influence of phenoxy-terminated short-chain pendant groups on gas transport properties of cross-linked poly(ethylene oxide) copolymers

Victor A. Kusuma; Scott Matteucci; Benny D. Freeman; Michael K. Danquah; Douglass S. Kalika

doi:10.1016/j.memsci.2009.05.043

Influence of phenoxy-terminated short-chain pendant groups on gas transport properties of cross-linked poly(ethylene oxide) copolymers

Victor A. Kusuma, Scott Matteucci, Benny D. Freeman, Michael K. Danquah, Douglass S. Kalika

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Abstract

Gas transport properties of rubbery cross-linked poly(ethylene oxide) films containing short phenoxy-terminated pendant chains are reported. Poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (PEGDA) was UV-polymerized with poly(ethylene glycol) phenyl ether acrylate co-monomers of two different ethylene oxide repeat unit lengths: n = 2 (DEGPEA) and n = 4 (PEGPEA). Although fractional free volume increased with increasing co-monomer concentration, gas permeability did not rise accordingly. For instance, while FFV increased from 0.120 to 0.135 in both series of copolymers, CO₂ permeability went from 110 to 35 barrer (DEGPEA) or to 100 barrer (PEGPEA). At the same time, glass transition temperature increased from -37 to -12 °C (DEGPEA) or to -28 °C (PEGPEA). The observed decrease in chain mobility with phenoxy-terminated co-monomer content indicated by increasing glass-rubber transition temperature apparently had a stronger influence on gas transport properties than the increase in fractional free volume.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	84-95
Number of pages	12
Journal	Journal of Membrane Science
Volume	341
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2009.05.043
State	Published - Sep 30 2009

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Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge partial support of this work by the U.S. Department of Energy (Grant DE-FG02-02ER15362) and by the U.S. National Science Foundation (Grant CBET-0515425). Activities at the University of Kentucky were supported by a grant from the Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation as per Grant Agreement KSEF-148-502-05-130 with the Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation. The authors would like to thank Dr. Angel E. Lozano of Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Polímeros (Madrid, Spain) and Dr. Donald R. Paul of the University of Texas at Austin for helpful discussions regarding some aspects of this work.

Keywords

Chain mobility
Cross-linked poly(ethylene oxide)
Fractional free volume
Light gas separation
Structure/property relationship

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Biochemistry
General Materials Science
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Filtration and Separation

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Influence of phenoxy-terminated short-chain pendant groups on gas transport properties of cross-linked poly(ethylene oxide) copolymers

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