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US 12,036,515 B2Granted
Thin-film composite membrane and methods of making and using the same
AssigneeThe Penn State Research Foundation
InventorsManish Kumar, Woochul Song, Yue-xiao Shen, Chao Lang
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a thin-film composite (TFC) membrane composition comprising macrocycles. The invention also relates in part to a method of fabricating a TFC membrane and to a method of using the TFC membrane to separate a desired liquid or gas from a liquid or gas mixture.
Claims5
A thin film composite (TFC) membrane comprising a porous layer of at least one organic polymer, wherein the organic polymer further comprises macrocycles, wherein the macrocycle is a pillararene, a crown-ether, a calixarene, a porphyrin, or a combination thereof.
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