The Development of Porous Inorganic Membranes

The concept of caibon membrane for gas separation can be found in the early nineteen seventies. Barrer et al. compressed non-porous graphite caibon into a plug, called caibon membrane [8]. Bird and Trimm used poly(fuifuiyl alcohol) (PFA) to prepare unsupported and supported caibon molecular sieve membranes. During carbonization, they encountered shrinkage problems, which lead to cracking and deformation of the membrane. Hence, they failed to obtain a continuous membrane [9]. 

Caibon molecular sieves produced from the pyrolysis of polymeric materials have proved to be very effective for gas separation in adsorption applications by Ko- 

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