Femtosecond (fs) laser micromachining on polymeric materials is a single-step, and contactless manufacturing technology. Knowing the potential of poly(ionic liquid)s (PILs) and their derived composite materials incorporating ionic liquids (PIL-IL) to design membranes with improved CO2 separation, we here explore for the first time the creation of microchannels on the surface of PIL-IL materials by laser ablatio...
Femtosecond (fs) laser micromachining on polymeric materials is a single-step, and contactless manufacturing technology. Knowing the potential of poly(ionic liquid)s (PILs) and their derived composite materials incorporating ionic liquids (PIL-IL) to design membranes with improved CO2 separation, we here explore for the first time the creation of microchannels on the surface of PIL-IL materials by laser ablatio...
Femtosecond (fs) laser micromachining on polymeric materials is a single-step, and contactless manufacturing technology. Knowing the potential of poly(ionic liquid)s (PILs) and their derived composite materials incorporating ionic liquids (PIL-IL) to design membranes with improved CO2 separation, we here explore for the first time the creation of microchannels on the surface of PIL-IL materials by laser ablatio...
This work presents mixed gas separation performance through PIL–IL membranes bearing pyrrolidinium-based PILs with [NTf2]– and [C(CN)3]– anions and different weight percentages of the corresponding ILs using a ternary mixture of H2, CO2 and N2 and different feed pressures ranging from 1 to 4 bar and temperatures from 20 to 80 ◦C. COSMO-RS was successfully used to understand the separation behavior of the PIL–IL...
Despite the fact that iongels are very attractive materials for gas separation membranes, they often show mechanical stability issues mainly due to the high ionic liquid (IL) content ( 60 wt%) needed to achieve high gas separation performances. This work investigates a strategy to improve the mechanical properties of iongel membranes, which consists in the incorporation of montmorillonite (MMT) nanoclay, from 0...
Cellophane (regenerated cellulose) membranes with tailored properties regarding hydrophobic character and barrier effects were prepared by their controlled heterogeneous esterification with two fatty acid derivatives (hexanoyl and dodecanoyl chlorides) The characterization of the modified membranes was performed by FUR spectroscopy X-ray diffraction and thermogravimetry confirming the success of the heterogeneo...
The surface hydrophobization through heterogeneous chemical modification of bacterial (and vegetable) cellulose fibers with several anhydrides (acetic, butyric, hexanoic and alkenyl succinic anhydrides) and hexanoyl chloride suspended in an ionic liquid, tetradecyltrihexylphosphonium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl) imide, [TDTHP][NTf(2)], was studied. Furthermore, in the reaction with hexanoyl chloride, another io...
The preparation and characterization of biocomposite materials with improved properties based on poly(lactic acid) (PLA) and bacterial cellulose, and, for comparative purposes, vegetal cellulose fibers, both in their pristine form or after acetylation, is reported. The composite materials were obtained through the simple and green mechanical compounding of a PLA matrix and bacterial cellulose nanofibrils (or ve...
Modified bacterial cellulose membranes with tailored properties, regarding their surface and barrier properties were prepared by controlled heterogeneous esterification with hexanoyl chloride. The characterization of the esterified bacterial cellulose membranes was performed by FTIR spectroscopy, elemental analyses, X-ray diffraction, thermogravimetry and contact angle measurements. The esterified membranes sho...