Project abstract:

The project aims to develop, through a cost-reasonable approach, a laboratory technology for making new PSf-POSS-IL membranes (polysulfones-silsesquioxanes membranes impregnated with ionic liquids) as active materials with user-controlled adaptability for integrated management of the CO₂ gas separation using artificial intelligence tools. The incorporation of silsesquioxanes-the inorganic nanomaterials into the polymer matrix makes possible the improvement of a wide range of properties. Therefore, the heterogeneous matrix membranes composed by a thin film of polymer and well dispersed silsesquioxanes have been studied in CO₂ separation. Artificial intelligence tools will be used in order to find the most appropriate reaction conditions for obtaining and characterization of new polysulfone-silsesquioxanes membranes impregnated with ionic liquids (PS-POSS-IL) (with predetermined characteristics) as new materials suitable for CO₂ capture and storage.