This disclosure relates to CO.sub.2-philic crosslinked polyethylene glycol membranes useful for natural gas purification processes. Also provided are methods of using the membranes to remove CO.sub.2 and H.sub.2S from natural gas.

A membrane for separating organic solvents such as methanol and toluene is provided. A plurality methacrylate polymer brushes, e.g., composed of hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) monomers or aminoethyl methacrylate (AEMA) monomers, are grafted from a crosslinked polyimide support using Single Electron Transfer-Living Radical Polymerization (SET-LRP). The polymer brushes themselves are also crosslinked by ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (EGDMA), triethylene glycol dimethacryalte (TEGDMA) trimesic acid, and/or itaconic acid. These hydrophilic polymeric brush membranes demonstrate pore stiffening and yet also opening, obtaining high selectivity at reasonable permeability and reduced energy requirements for commercially relevant separations, e.g., methanol/toluene. The addition of the crosslinker prevents loss of selectivity as a result of imparting increased rigidity, enabling the membranes to be operated at higher operating pressures for increased throughput. These membranes would be beneficial for use in pharmaceutical, chemical, petroleum, food, and biotechnology industries, e.g., in the manufacture of polymethacrylic acid, the manufacture of paraxylene, etc.

A method of making monovalent and multivalent anion selective membrane. Such membrane can be used for electrodialysis (ED) operation and applied towards the important Cl.sup.SO.sub.4.sup.2 separation in lithium extraction. The membrane thickness is much less than 100 m, preferably less than 50 m, more preferably less than 40 m, and most preferably 20-30 m.

The present disclosure provides extruded or spun, semi-permeable, porous hollow fibres, comprising covalent ester, thioester and/or amide crosslinked polypeptides as well as processes for their production. The hollow fibres may be produced from protein, protein extracts, and/or protein isolates derived from plants, animals, bacteria, algae, archaea, and/or fungi, and in certain embodiments are intended to be suitable for human and/or animal ingestion. In some embodiments, the hollow fibres may be designed to be used in the production of cartridges that are compatible with existing and/or novel bioreactor platforms, for harbouring cell cultures in cultured meat production.

Embodiments described herein relate generally to graphene oxide membranes for fluid filtration and more specifically to graphene oxide membranes having tunable permeability, rejection rate, and flux. Some embodiments of the graphene oxide membranes disclosed herein are characterized as having a flux of at least about 2.510.sup.4 gallons per square foot per day per psi with a 1 wt % lactose solution at room temperature, and a lactose rejection rate of at least 50% with a 1 wt % lactose solution.

Membranes, methods of making the membranes, and methods of using the membranes are described herein. The membrane can include a support layer, and a selective polymer layer disposed on the support layer. The selective polymer layer can include a selective polymer matrix that comprises a mobile carrier comprising a sterically hindered amine or a salt thereof. The selective polymer matrix can further comprise, for example, a hydrophilic polymer, a cross-linking agent, an amine-containing polymer, or a combination thereof. The membranes can be used to separate hydrogen sulfide from carbon dioxide. Also provided are methods of purifying syngas using the membranes described herein.

At least one aspect of the present disclosure relates to a two-dimensional mineral membrane including a first phyllosilicate material and a second phyllosilicate material crosslinked with the first phyllosilicate material, where a surface of at least one of the first phyllosilicate material or the second phyllosilicate material includes at least one functional group. Another aspect of the present disclosure relates to a method of producing a two-dimensional mineral membrane. The method includes providing a first phyllosilicate material and a second phyllosilicate material, exfoliating a mixture of the first phyllosilicate material and the second phyllosilicate material into a plurality of flakes, crosslinking the first phyllosilicate material with the second phyllosilicate material, functionalizing a surface of at least one of the first phyllosilicate material or the second phyllosilicate material, and restacking the plurality of flakes to form a membrane.

The present disclosure provides extruded or spun, semi-permeable, porous hollow fibres, comprising covalent ester, thioester and/or amide crosslinked polypeptides as well as processes for their production. The hollow fibres may be produced from protein, protein extracts, and/or protein isolates derived from plants, animals, bacteria, algae, archaea, and/or fungi, and in certain embodiments are intended to be suitable for human and/or animal ingestion. In some embodiments, the hollow fibres may be designed to be used in the production of cartridges that are compatible with existing and/or novel bioreactor platforms, for harbouring cell cultures in cultured meat production.

An ion exchange membrane material is composed of a crosslinked polymer network including a first poly(styrene-b-ethylene-r-butylene-b-styrene) triblock copolymer (SEBS), and second SEBS, and a linker crosslinking the first SEBS and the second SEBS. At least one phenyl group from the first SEBS and the second SEBS is functionalized with an alkyl group, and the carbon at the benzylic position of these alkyl groups is saturated with at least two additional alkyl groups. The linker is a diamine bound to the alkyl functional groups. The ion exchange membrane material is made via a substantially simultaneous quaternization and crosslinking reaction between the diamine linker and SEBS functionalized with alkyl halide groups. Increasing concentration of crosslinker in produces membranes with reduced water uptake, leading to an expectation of enhanced stability under hydrated conditions and greater durability. Advantageously, this reduction in water uptake came with little change to ion exchange capacity.

Filtration apparatus including Graphene Oxide (GO) are described herein. The GO membranes include a plurality of graphene oxide sheets, each of the graphene oxide sheets covalently bound to a chemical spacer. The filtration apparatus can include a GO membrane and a sulfonated polyethersulfone (S-PES). The filtration apparatus can exhibit improved performance with respect to prior art membranes (e.g., high flux and rejection rate) in applications such as pulp and paper processing, which facilitates achieving permeate quality targets. The filtration apparatus described herein can also offer a more stable replacement for reverse osmosis membranes which are known to degrade under strongly alkaline conditions and high temperatures.