Design of functional and sustainable polymers assisted by artificial intelligence

H Tran, R Gurnani, C Kim, G Pilania, HK Kwon… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Artificial intelligence (AI)-based methods continue to make inroads into accelerated
materials design and development. Here, we review AI-enabled advances made in the …

Dynamics of polymer segments, polymer chains, and nanoparticles in polymer nanocomposite melts: A review

EJ Bailey, KI Winey - Progress in Polymer Science, 2020 - Elsevier
The addition of nanoparticles (NPs) to a polymer matrix, forming a polymer nanocomposite
(PNC), is known to alter the microscopic dynamic processes of both species which leads to …

Mixed matrix formulations with MOF molecular sieving for key energy-intensive separations

G Liu, V Chernikova, Y Liu, K Zhang, Y Belmabkhout… - Nature materials, 2018 - nature.com
Membrane-based separations can improve energy efficiency and reduce the environmental
impacts associated with traditional approaches. Nevertheless, many challenges must be …

Review on the processing and properties of polymer nanocomposites and nanocoatings and their applications in the packaging, automotive and solar energy fields

K Müller, E Bugnicourt, M Latorre, M Jorda… - Nanomaterials, 2017 - mdpi.com
For the last decades, nanocomposites materials have been widely studied in the scientific
literature as they provide substantial properties enhancements, even at low nanoparticles …

Mixed‐matrix membranes

J Dechnik, J Gascon, CJ Doonan… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Research into extended porous materials such as metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs) and
porous organic frameworks (POFs), as well as the analogous metal‐organic polyhedra …

50th Anniversary Perspective: Are Polymer Nanocomposites Practical for Applications?

SK Kumar, BC Benicewicz, RA Vaia, KI Winey - Macromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
The field of polymer nanocomposites has been at the forefront of research in the polymer
community for the past few decades. Foundational work published in Macromolecules …

Advances in high permeability polymer-based membrane materials for CO 2 separations

S Wang, X Li, H Wu, Z Tian, Q Xin, G He… - Energy & …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Membrane processes have evolved as a competitive approach in CO2 separations
compared with absorption and adsorption processes, due to their inherent attributes such as …

Designing exceptional gas-separation polymer membranes using machine learning

JW Barnett, CR Bilchak, Y Wang, BC Benicewicz… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The field of polymer membrane design is primarily based on empirical observation, which
limits discovery of new materials optimized for separating a given gas pair. Instead of relying …

[HTML][HTML] Polymers of intrinsic microporosity for energy-intensive membrane-based gas separations

Y Wang, X Ma, BS Ghanem, F Alghunaimi, I Pinnau… - Materials Today …, 2018 - Elsevier
This review provides a new perspective on the role of the state-of-the-art polymers of
intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) in key energy-intensive membrane-based gas separations …

State-of-the-art membrane based CO2 separation using mixed matrix membranes (MMMs): An overview on current status and future directions

M Rezakazemi, AE Amooghin… - Progress in Polymer …, 2014 - Elsevier
The main purpose of research in membrane gas separation is to develop membranes with
high permeability and selectivity. Historically, the gas separation performance of polymeric …