The present invention relates to a separation membrane including an organic polymer resin, in which a volume V1 of fine pores having a pore diameter of 100 nm or more is 0.3 cm.sup.3/g or more and 0.5 cm.sup.3/g or less, a volume V2 of fine pores having a pore diameter of less than 100 nm is 0.02 cm.sup.3/g or more and less than 0.1 cm.sup.3/g, and a ratio V1/V2 of the fine pore volume V1 to the fine pore volume V2 is 3 or more and 60 or less.

A composition of five parts by mass of chitosan and one part graphene oxide is suspended in water. The composition may be used to form filtration layers of any size or shape and may be reinforced by additional layers. The composition may be used to construct a large filtration apparatus of any size or shape and may be used to form highly resilient, antimicrobial structures and surfaces for a variety of applications.

Coating a hydrogel-state coating liquid containing at least a hydrophilic compound and an acid gas carrier on one surface of a hydrophobic porous body having three-dimensional network structure formed through intersecting, coupling or branching of a plurality of fibrils, and a large number of pores formed of microscopic interstices divided by the plurality of fibrils to form a facilitated transport membrane thereon. The hydrophobic porous body has an average inter-fibril distance of 0.001 μm or more and 2 μm or less inside a plane in parallel to a surface on which the acid gas separation facilitated transport membrane is formed, an average fibril length of 0.01 μm or more and 2 μm or less inside the plane, and an average inter-fibril distance of 0.001 μm or more and 2 μm or less in a direction perpendicular to the surface.

A method for preparing a nanoporous membrane includes alternatively repeating, on the surface of a porous substrate, the laminating of a hydrophilic homopolymer and the laminating of an amphiphilic block or graft copolymer to provide a polymer multilayer film in which the alternative laminate of the hydrophilic homopolymer and the amphiphilic block or graft copolymer is formed. The polymer multilayer film is annealed to form a microphase separated polymeric membrane. The laminating of a hydrophilic homopolymer and the laminating of a supramolecular structure compound are alternatively repeated, on the surface of the polymeric membrane, to form the alternative laminate of the hydrophilic homopolymer and the supramolecular structure compound.

Methods of making blended, isoporous, asymmetric (graded) films (e.g. ultrafiltration membranes) comprising two or more chemically distinct block copolymers and blended, isoporous, asymmetric (graded) films (e.g. ultrafiltration membranes) comprising two or more chemically distinct block copolymers. The generation of blended membranes by mixing two chemically distinct block copolymers in the casting solution demonstrates a pathway to advanced asymmetric block copolymer derived films, which can be used as ultrafiltration membranes, in which different pore surface chemistries and associated functionalities can be integrated into a single membrane via standard membrane fabrication, i.e. without requiring laborious post-fabrication modification steps. The block copolymers may be diblock, triblock and/or multiblock mixes and some block copolymers in the mix may be functionally modified. Triblock copolymers comprising a reactive group (e.g., sulfhydryl group) terminated block and films comprising the triblock copolymers.

A method for removal of at least a portion of carbon dioxide from an aqueous fluid such as a blood fluid includes placing a first surface of at least one membrane through which carbon dioxide and at least one acid gas other than carbon dioxide can pass in fluid in contact with the fluid. The membrane limits or prevent passage of the fluid therethrough. A carrier or sweep gas including the acid gas other than carbon dioxide is passed over a second surface (which is typically opposite the first surface) of the membrane so that the acid gas other than carbon dioxide can pass through the membrane into the fluid, and carbon dioxide from the fluid can pass from the liquid, through the membrane, and into the sweep gas.

The present invention relates to a mixed-matrix composition comprising polymer having a fractional free volume of at least 0.1 and porous particles.

The present invention provides, inter alia, compositions including at least one pliable layer comprising a plurality of silk fibroin nanofibrils, and at least one rigid layer comprising a plurality of mineral crystals, wherein each rigid layer is associated with at least one pliable layer, as well as methods for the production and use thereof.

Provided is a gas separation membrane including a support, a separation layer, and a protective layer in this order, in which the separation layer contains inorganic particles, the protective layer contains a resin and inorganic particles having an average particle diameter of 10 nm or greater which is less than 0.34 times the film thickness of the protective layer, and the content of the inorganic particles contained in the protective layer is 40% by mass or less with respect to the content of the resin contained in the protective layer, the gas separation membrane being capable of being made into a spiral type gas separation membrane module while maintaining high permeability; and a gas separation membrane module which uses the gas separation membrane.

Disclosed is a method of modifying a metal-organic framework (MOF), the modified MOF, and methods for using the same. The method of modification can include heating a mixture comprising an azide compound and a MOF to generate a nitrene compound and nitrogen (N2) from the azide compound and covalently bonding the nitrene compound to the MOF to obtain the modified MOF.