A film comprising a perforated layer, wherein the perforated layer is characterized by water vapor transmission rate (WVTR) of at least 300 gr/m2/day; and wherein the perforated layer is characterized by a liquid permeability of less than 0.6 gr when measured according to AATCC 35. Further, methods of manufacturing the composition of the invention are provided.

A membrane-forming composition containing a silicone, a silicone-dissolving solvent, surface-modified microparticles, and a particular solvent which is a compound having one or more oxygen or one or more nitrogen atoms and which has a dielectric constant of 1 to 30.

The invention discloses a forward osmosis (FO) membrane containing silica nanoparticles having high permeate water flux and its manufacturing method. The FO membrane containing a plurality of silica nanoparticles comprises a substrate layer made of polysulfone and a polyamide layer disposed on the substrate layer. In the course of manufacturing the polyamide layer on the substrate layer by interfacial polymerization, the plurality of silica nanoparticles with different properties is added into the polyamide layer to obtain the FO membrane containing silica nanoparticles having high permeability and solute selectivity.

A method of removing carbon dioxide from a gas can include providing a gaseous feed stream including a carbon dioxide gas and adsorbing the carbon dioxide gas with a porous carbon sorbent. The method can further include de-adsorbing the carbon dioxide and combining the carbon dioxide with a substantially pure hydrogen gas to produce at least one of methane and methanol. The adsorbing and de-adsorbing of the carbon dioxide gas can be conducted by an electric swing adsorption.

The present invention relates to ZIF nanoparticles introduced with three kinds of ligands, a method for preparing the same, a hybrid membrane including the same, and a gas separation method using the hybrid membrane. Nanoparticles of a zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF) into which three kinds of ligands are introduced, the nanoparticles comprising metal ions, and an organic ligand bound to the metal ion, wherein the organic ligand comprises an imidazole-based first organic ligand, alkylamine-based second organic ligand, and third organic ligand comprising at least one amine group substituted on the ring.

Provided are porous polymeric filter membranes comprising a polymer having admixed therein at least one carbonaceous material. The membranes are capable of removing trace amounts of various impurities from a liquid composition, including metal ions, acids, bases, and organic contaminants.

A porous material comprises a porous material substrate and nanostructure arrays that are in-situ grown on the porous material substrate; wherein a surface modification layer is arranged on the surface of the nanoarrays, and the surface modification layer is configured to increase the adhesion force between the nanoarrays and the microbes. The porous material is applied to disinfection, which comprises the steps: The porous material with the surface-modified nanoarrays is placed in flowing water, the water flow passes through the gaps of the nanoarrays in a shuttling mode, and in the shuttling flowing process, microbes come into contact with the nanoarrays. The microbes are torn up through the hydrodynamic force and the adhesion force between the nanoarrays and the microbes, so that the microbes are physically ruptured to achieve disinfection.

Disclosed are a light-driven filtration antibacterial composite membrane and a preparation method and use thereof. The method for preparing the light-driven filtration antibacterial composite membrane includes: mixing dichloromethane and N,N-dimethylformamide to obtain a first solution; adding PCL particles to the first solution, and stirring until being uniform to obtain an electrospinning solution; adding a ZIF-8 powder to the electrospinning solution, and ultrasonically dispersing for at least 1 hour to obtain a PCL/ZIF-8 spinning solution; spraying the PCL/ZIF-8 spinning solution onto a PPCL@PDA/TAEG men-blown membrane to obtain the light-driven filtration antibacterial composite membrane.

The present invention provides a separation membrane that is suitable for separating an acid gas from a gas mixture containing the acid gas and has a high acid gas permeability. A separation membrane (10) of the present invention includes: a separation functional layer (1); a porous support member (3) supporting the separation functional layer (1); and an intermediate layer (2) disposed between the separation functional layer (1) and the porous support member (3), and including a matrix (4) and nanoparticles (5) dispersed in the matrix (4).

A process for preparing a hollow fiber includes the steps of providing a dope solution including polyamide imide (PAI), providing an aqueous bore solution including polyethylene imine (PEI), extruding the dope solution in an cross-sectional annular shape and ejecting the bore solution in the center of the annular shape, allowing the PAI and the PEI to react, thereby forming an internal surface layer including the cross-linked reaction product, and forming a polyamide Thin Film Composite (TFC) layer by interfacial reaction of aqueous di- or triamine compound and organic di- or triacylhalide compound on the internal surface layer including the cross-linked reaction product.