Gas Permeability through Polyimides: Unraveling the Influence of Free Volume, Intersegmental Distance and Glass Transition Temperature.

Polymers (Basel)

Surface and Porous Materials (SMAP), Associated Research Unit to CSIC, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valladolid, Paseo Belén 7, E-47011 Valladolid, Spain.

Published: December 2023

The relationships between gas permeability and free volume fraction, intersegmental distance, and glass transition temperature, are investigated. They are analyzed for He, CO, O, CH, and N gases and for five similar polyimides with a wide range of permeabilities, from very low to extremely high ones. It has been established here that there is an exponential relationship between permeability and the free volume fraction, and between permeability and the most probable intersegmental distance as measured by WAXS; in both cases, with an exponential coefficient that depends on the kinetic gas diameter as a quadratic polynomial and with a preexponential positive constant. Moreover, it has been proven that the intersegmental distance increases linearly with the free volume fraction. Finally, it has been established that the free volume fraction increases with the glass transition temperature for the polymers tested, and that they depend on each other in an approximate linear way.

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