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Gas Separation Membranes with Atom-Thick Nanopores: The Potential of Nanoporous Single-Layer Graphene

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Kuang-Jung Hsu, Deepu Joseph Babu, Cédric Karel J Van Goethem

Gas separation is one of the most important industrial processes and is poised to take a larger role in the transition to renewable energy, e.g., carbon capture and hydrogen purification. Conventional gas separation processes involving cryogenic distillati ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Millisecond lattice gasification for high-density CO2- and O2-sieving nanopores in single-layer graphene

Emad Oveisi, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Mounir Driss Mensi, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Shiqi Huang, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Shaoxian Li, Deepu Joseph Babu, Marina Micari

Etching single-layer graphene to incorporate a high pore density with sub-angstrom precision in molecular differentiation is critical to realize the promising high-flux separation of similar-sized gas molecules, e.g., CO2 from N2. However, rapid etching ki ...

2021

Large-scale synthesis of crystalline g-C3N4 nanosheets and high-temperature H-2 sieving from assembled films

Nicola Marzari, Emad Oveisi, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Mounir Driss Mensi, Davide Campi, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra

Poly(triazine imide) (PTI), a crystalline g-C3N4, hosting two-dimensional nanoporous structure with an electron density gap of 0.34 nm, is highly promising for high-temperature hydrogen sieving because of its high chemical and thermal robustness. Currently ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2020

Demonstrating and Unraveling a Controlled Nanometer-Scale Expansion of the Vacancy Defects in Graphene by CO2

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Kuang-Jung Hsu, Mojtaba Chevalier

A controlled manipulation of graphene edges and vacancies is desired for molecular separation, sensing and electronics applications. Unfortunately, available etching methods always lead to vacancy nucleation making it challenging to control etching. Herein ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2022

Unblocking Ion-occluded Pore Channels in Poly(triazine imide) Framework for Proton Conduction

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Kangning Zhao, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Heng-Yu Chi, Laura Piveteau, Qi Liu

Poly(triazine imide) or PTI is an ordered graphitic carbon nitride hosting angstrom-scale pores attractive for selective molecular transport. AA'-stacked PTI layers are synthesized by ionothermal route during which ions occupy the framework and occlude the ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2022

Rapid Gas Transport from Block-Copolymer Templated Nanoporous Carbon Films

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Kuang-Jung Hsu, Marina Micari, Jing Zhao, Xuekui Duan

Porous carbon films, attributed to their superior thermal and chemical robustness, are attractive for a number of applications. In the context of molecular separation, a major focus has been on films where the effective pore diameter is lower than 1 nm, e. ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Synergistic CO2-Sieving from Polymer with Intrinsic Microporosity Masking Nanoporous Single-Layer Graphene

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Mounir Driss Mensi, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Shiqi Huang, Guangwei He, Wan-Chi Lee, Jing Zhao

High-flux nanoporous single-layer graphene membranes are highly promising for energy-efficient gas separation. Herein, in the context of carbon capture, a remarkable enhancement in the CO(2)selectivity is demonstrated by uniquely masking nanoporous single- ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

Systematic design of millisecond gasification reactor for the incorporation of gas-sieving nanopores in single-layer graphene

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Shiqi Huang, Shaoxian Li, Kuang-Jung Hsu

Etching an ensemble of vacancy defects (nanopores) in single-layer graphene (SLG) to obtain a high density of nanopores with an effective size that enables high-performance gas sieving is challenging. This is because nanopore nucleation and expansion are u ...

2021

Hydrogen-sieving zeolitic films by coating zeolite nanosheets on porous polymeric support

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Xuekui Duan

The synthesis of high-performance gas-sieving zeolitic film is challenging because it involves seeded secondary growth which is complex and difficult to reproduce. Additionally, expensive asymmetric inorganic porous supports are often needed for calcinatio ...

ELSEVIER2023

Enhanced Water Evaporation from A-Scale Graphene Nanopores

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Mounir Driss Mensi, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Shiqi Huang, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Kuang-Jung Hsu, Wan-Chi Lee

Enhancing the kinetics of liquid-vapor transition from nanoscale confinements is an attractive strategy for developing evaporation and separation applications. The ultimate limit of confinement for evaporation is an atom thick interface hosting angstrom-sc ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Large-scale fabrication of flexible solid-state reference electrodes

Hubert Girault, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Milica Jovic, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra

A new approach for large-scale fabrication of miniaturized, reliable and planar solid-state reference electrodes on flexible substrates is presented. Inkjet printing technique was used for the fabrication of conductive path and silver patterns that were ch ...

2019

Unit-cell-thick zeolitic imidazolate framework films for membrane application

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Heng-Yu Chi, Shaoxian Li, Qi Liu, Deepu Joseph Babu, Shuqing Song, Jian Hao

Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) are a subset of metal-organic frameworks with more than 200 characterized crystalline and amorphous networks made of divalent transition metal centres (for example, Zn2+ and Co2+) linked by imidazolate linkers. ZIF th ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Efficient Kr/Xe separation from triangular g-C(3)N(4)nanopores, a simulation study

Nicola Marzari, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Davide Campi, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Nicola Colonna

Poly(triazine imide) or PTI is a promising material for molecular sieving membranes, thanks to its atom-thick ordered lattice with an extremely high density (1.6 x 10(14)pores per cm(2)) of triangular-shaped nanopores of similar to 0.34 nm diameter. Here, ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Tuning Pore Size in Graphene in the Angstrom Regime for Highly Selective Ion-Ion Separation

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Kangning Zhao, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Heng-Yu Chi, Shaoxian Li, Kuang-Jung Hsu, Mojtaba Chevalier, Wan-Chi Lee

Zero-dimensional pores spanning only a few angstroms in size in two-dimensional materials such as graphene are some of the most promising systems for designing ion-ion selective membranes. However, the key challenge in the field is that so far a crack-free ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Crystal Engineering of Metal-Organic Framework Thin Films for Gas Separations

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Guangwei He, Deepu Joseph Babu

Metal organic frameworks or MOFs have witnessed a phenomenal rise owing to a highly tunable synthetic chemistry allowing flexibility in the selection of its constituents, namely metal nodes and linkers. Combined with their superior adsorption and diffusion ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

In Situ Nucleation-Decoupled and Site-Specific Incorporation of angstrom-Scale Pores in Graphene Via Epoxidation

Nicola Marzari, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Victor Carle Adrien Boureau, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Shiqi Huang, Heng-Yu Chi, Shaoxian Li, Kuang-Jung Hsu, Luc Sébastien Bondaz, Mohammad Tohidivahdat

Generating pores in graphene by decoupled nucleation and expansion is desired to achieve a fine control over the porosity, and is desired to advance several applications. Herein, epoxidation is introduced, which is the formation of nanosized epoxy clusters ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2022

Graphene membranes with pyridinic nitrogen at pore edges for high-performance CO2 capture

Andreas Züttel, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Shiqi Huang, Liping Zhong, Heng-Yu Chi, Shaoxian Li, Kuang-Jung Hsu, Marina Micari, Shuqing Song, Xuekui Duan

Membranes based on a porous two-dimensional selective layer offer the potential to achieve exceptional performance to improve energy efficiency and reduce the cost for carbon capture. So far, separation from two-dimensional pores has exploited differences ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Bottom-up synthesis of graphene films hosting atom-thick molecular-sieving apertures

Emad Oveisi, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Kangning Zhao, Victor Carle Adrien Boureau, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Shiqi Huang, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Shaoxian Li, Kuang-Jung Hsu, Cédric Karel J Van Goethem, Yueqing Shen, Mina Moradi

Incorporation of a high density of molecular-sieving nanopores in the graphene lattice by the bottom-up synthesis is highly attractive for high-performance membranes. Herein, we achieve this by a controlled synthesis of nanocrystalline graphene where incom ...

National Academy of Sciences2021

High-permeance polymer-functionalized single-layer graphene membranes that surpass the postcombustion carbon capture target

Emad Oveisi, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Mounir Driss Mensi, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Shiqi Huang, Guangwei He, Mojtaba Chevalier, Jing Zhao

Membrane-based postcombustion carbon capture can reduce the capture penalty in comparison to absorbent-based separation. To realize this, high-performance membranes are urgently needed with a CO2 permeance exceeding 1000 gas permeation units or GPU, and a ...

2019

Gas-sieving zeolitic membranes fabricated by condensation of precursor nanosheets

Michele Ceriotti, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Claudia Esther Avalos, Mojtaba Chevalier, Rocio Semino Barbaresi

The synthesis of molecular-sieving zeolitic membranes by the assembly of building blocks, avoiding the hydrothermal treatment, is highly desired to improve reproducibility and scalability. Here we report exfoliation of the sodalite precursor RUB-15 into cr ...

2020