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Composite Membranes Derived From Cellulose And Lignin Sulfonate For Selective Separations And Antifouling Aspects, Andrew Steven Colburn, Ronald J. Vogler, Aum Patel, Mariah Bezold, John D. Craven, Chunqing Liu, Dibakar Bhattacharyya Jun 2019

Composite Membranes Derived From Cellulose And Lignin Sulfonate For Selective Separations And Antifouling Aspects, Andrew Steven Colburn, Ronald J. Vogler, Aum Patel, Mariah Bezold, John D. Craven, Chunqing Liu, Dibakar Bhattacharyya

Chemical and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications

Cellulose-based membrane materials allow for separations in both aqueous solutions and organic solvents. The addition of nanocomposites into cellulose structure is facilitated through steric interaction and strong hydrogen bonding with the hydroxy groups present within cellulose. An ionic liquid, 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate, was used as a solvent for microcrystalline cellulose to incorporate graphene oxide quantum dots into cellulose membranes. In this work, other composite materials such as, iron oxide nanoparticles, polyacrylic acid, and lignin sulfonate have all been uniformly incorporated into cellulose membranes utilizing ionic liquid cosolvents. Integration of iron into cellulose membranes resulted in high selectivity (> 99%) of neutral …


Effect Of Crystallization Modes In Tips-Pentacene/Insulating Polymer Blends On The Gas Sensing Properties Of Organic Field-Effect Transistors, Jung Hun Lee, Yena Seo, Yeong Don Park, John E. Anthony, Do Hun Kwak, Jung Ah Lim, Sunglim Ko, Ho Won Jang, Kilwon Cho, Wi Hyoung Lee Jan 2019

Effect Of Crystallization Modes In Tips-Pentacene/Insulating Polymer Blends On The Gas Sensing Properties Of Organic Field-Effect Transistors, Jung Hun Lee, Yena Seo, Yeong Don Park, John E. Anthony, Do Hun Kwak, Jung Ah Lim, Sunglim Ko, Ho Won Jang, Kilwon Cho, Wi Hyoung Lee

Center for Applied Energy Research Faculty and Staff Publications

Blending organic semiconductors with insulating polymers has been known to be an effective way to overcome the disadvantages of single-component organic semiconductors for high-performance organic field-effect transistors (OFETs). We show that when a solution processable organic semiconductor (6,13-bis(triisopropylsilylethynyl)pentacene, TIPS-pentacene) is blended with an insulating polymer (PS), morphological and structural characteristics of the blend films could be significantly influenced by the processing conditions like the spin coating time. Although vertical phase-separated structures (TIPS-pentacene-top/PS-bottom) were formed on the substrate regardless of the spin coating time, the spin time governed the growth mode of the TIPS-pentacene molecules that phase-separated and crystallized on the …