Publications by Deepu Joseph Babu

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

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

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

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

Deepu Joseph Babu, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Kuang-Jung Hsu, 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

Method of preparation of porous polymeric support layer and uses thereof

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

The invention relates to methods for the preparation of polymer supported graphene membrane by non-solvent induced phase separation and resulting products thereof, in particular useful for the preparation of gas separation membranes, in particular for He o ...

2021

Mechanistic Study on Thermally Induced Lattice Stiffening of ZIF-8

Deepu Joseph Babu, Mehrdad Asgari, Wendy Lee Queen, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Qi Liu, Jian Hao

The flexibility of the ZIF-8 aperture, which inhibits a molecular cutoff of 3.4 angstrom, can be reduced by rapid heat treatment to obtain CO2-selective membranes. However, the early stages of the structural, morphological, and chemical changes responsible ...

2021

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

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

Synthesis of high-performance polycrystalline metal-organic framework membranes at room temperature in a few minutes

Deepu Joseph Babu, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Heng-Yu Chi, Qi Liu, Jian Hao

The development of a rapid and reproducible crystallization route for the synthesis of polycrystalline metal-organic framework (MOF) films is attractive for the scalable production of nanoporous membranes on porous supports. Prior crystallization studies h ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Metal Soap Membranes for Gas Separation

Deepu Joseph Babu, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Davide Campi, Qi Liu, Jian Hao

Metal soaps or metal alkanoates are metal-organic complexes held together with metal cations and the functional groups of hydrocarbon chains. They can be synthesized at a high yield by simply mixing the metal and organic sources, forming crystalline framew ...

2020

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

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

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

Electrophoretic Crystallization of Ultrathin High-performance Metal-organic Framework Membranes

Deepu Joseph Babu, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Guangwei He

We report the synthesis of thin, highly intergrown, polycrystalline metal-organic framework (MOF) membranes on a wide range of unmodified porous and non-porous supports (polymer, ceramic, metal, carbon, and graphene). We developed a novel crystallization t ...

JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS2018