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PIMs TIMELINE |
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The PIM concept arose
from collaborative research by Neil McKeown and
Peter Budd, involving Kadhum Msayib
and Bader Ghanem. |
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2003 GB patent application filed
for MICROPOROUS POLYMER MATERIAL |
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P.M. Budd et al., Adv.
Mater., 2004, 16, 456. P.M. Budd et al., Chem.
Comm., 2004, 230. |
2004 First communications on
polymers of intrinsic microporosity and on their
potential use in membranes for organophilic
pervaporation. |
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2005 First publication on the potential application of PIMs in
membranes for gas separation. PIM-1 and PIM-7 were shown to surpass
the upper bounds of performance that were established by Robeson in 1991 for
gas pairs such as O2/N2. |
P.M. Budd et al., J.
Membr. Sci., 2005, 251, 263. |
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L.M. Robeson, J. Membr. Sci., 2008, 320, 390. |
2008 Gas permeation data on PIMs contributed to a revision by Robeson
of the upper bounds of performance for various gas pairs. |
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2010 US patent granted. |
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2014 European patent granted. Commercial product: PIM-1 is used by 3M, under licence from the University of
Manchester, in an organic vapor service life
indicator (no longer available). |
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2015 Development
of new PIMs leads to new upper bounds for air and hydrogen separations. |
R. Swaidan et
al., ACS Macro Lett., 2015, 4,
947. |
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2019, 12, 2733. |
2019 Further development of PIMs
leads to new upper bounds for CO2 separations. |
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2022 PIMs available through Merck
(Sigma-Aldrich). |
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