Moon, J. D.; Webber, T. R.; Brown, D. R.; Richardson, P. M.; Casey, T. M.; Segalman, R. A.; Shell, M. S.; Han, S. Nanoscale Water–Polymer Interactions Tune Macroscopic Diffusivity of Water in Aqueous Poly(Ethylene Oxide) Solutions. Chem. Sci. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SC05377F.

Nordness, O.; Moon, J. D.; Marioni, N.; Zofchak, E. S.; Richardson, P. M.; Landsman, M. R.; Katz, L. E.; Hawker, C. J.; Ganesan, V.; Segalman, R. A.; Clément, R. J. Probing Water and Ion Diffusion in Functional Hydrogel Membranes by PFG-NMR. Macromolecules 2023, 56 (12), 4669–4680. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.3c00306.

Shannon, D. P.; Moon, J. D.; Barney, C. W.; Sinha, N. J.; Yang, K.-C.; Jones, S. D.; Garcia, R. V.; Helgeson, M. E.; Segalman, R. A.; Valentine, M. T.; Hawker, C. J. Modular Synthesis and Patterning of High-Stiffness Networks by Postpolymerization Functionalization with Iron–Catechol Complexes. Macromolecules 2023, 56, 2268-2276. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.2c02561.

Moon, J. D.; Torres-Cuevas, E. S.; Borjigin, H.; Liu, R.; Joseph, R. M.; Riffle, J. S.; Freeman, B. D.; Paul, D. R. Impact of humidity on gas transport in polybenzimidazoles. Journal of Membrane Science. 2021, 639, 119758. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2021.119758

Moon, J. D.; Sujanani, R.; Geng, Z.; Freeman, B. D.; Segalman, R. A.; Hawker, C. J. Versatile synthetic platform for polymer membrane libraries using functional networks. Macromolecules. 2021, 54, 866-873. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.0c02414

Sujanani, R.; Landsman, M. R.; Jiao, S.; Moon, J.D.; Shell, M. S.; Lawler, D. F.; Katz, L. E.; Freeman, B. D. Designing solute-tailored selectivity in membranes: Perspectives for water reuse and resource recovery. ACS Macro Letters. 2020, 11, 1709-1717. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.0c00710

Moon, J. D.; Freeman, B. D.; Hawker, C. J.; Segalman, R. A. Can self-assembly address the permeability/selectivity trade-offs in polymer membranes? Macromolecules. 2020, 53, 5649-5654. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.0c01111

Moon, J. D.; Galizia, M.; Borjigin, H.; Liu, R.; Riffle, J. S.; Freeman, B. D.; Paul, D. R. Modeling water diffusion and plasticization in polybenzimidazoles using partial immobilization and free volume theory. Polymer. 2020, 189, 122170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2020.122170

Stevens, K.; Moon, J.; Borjigin, H.; Liu, R.; Joseph, R.; Riffle, J.; Freeman, B. Influence of temperature on gas transport properties of tetraaminodiphenylsulfone (TADPS) based polybenzimidazoles. Journal of Membrane Science. 2020, 593, 117427. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2019.117427

Hill, A. J.; Thornton, A. W.; Hannink, R. H. J.; Moon, J. D., Freeman, B. D. Role of free volume in molecular mobility and performance of glassy polymers for corrosion protective coatings. Corrosion Engineering Science and Technology. 2020, 55, 145-158. https://doi.org/10.1080/1478422X.2019.1701237

Miller, Q.; Dixon, D.; Burton, S.; Walter, E.; Hoyt, D.; McNeill, A.; Moon, J.; Thanthiriwatte, K.; Ilton, E.; Qafoku, O.; Thompson, C.; Schaef, H.; Rosso, K.; Loring, J. Surface-catalyzed oxygen exchange during mineral carbonation in nanoscale water films. Journal of Physical Chemistry Part C. 2019, 123, 12871-12885. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b02215

Moon, J. D.; Bridge, A. T.; D’Ambra, C.; Freeman, B. D.; Paul, D. R. Gas separation properties of polybenzimidazole / thermally-rearranged polymer blends. Journal of Membrane Science. 2019, 582, 182-193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2019.03.067

Moon, J. D.; Freeman, B. D. Ordered polymeric membranes using metals. Nature Materials. 2018, 18, 92-93. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-018-0235-x

Musto, P.; La Manna, P.; Moon, J. D.; Galizia, M.; Freeman, B. D. Infrared spectroscopy of polybenzimidazole in the dry and hydrate forms: A combined experimental and computational study. ACS Omega. 2018, 3, 11592-11607. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.8b01699

Moon, J. D.; Galizia, M.; Borjigin, H.; Liu, R.; Riffle, J. S.; Freeman, B. D.; Paul, D. R. Water vapor sorption, diffusion, and dilation in polybenzimidazoles. Macromolecules. 2018, 51, pp 7197-7208. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01659

Joseph, R.; Merrick, M.; Liu, R.; Fraser, A.; Moon, J.; Choudhury, S. R.; Lesko, J.; Freeman, B.; Riffle, J. Synthesis and characterization of polybenzimidazole membranes for gas separation with improved gas permeability: a grafting and blending approach. Journal of Membrane Science. 2018, 564, pp 587-597. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2018.07.064

Narang, G. S.; Moon, J. D.; Zhang, W.; Miller, G. C.; Choudhury, S. R.; Vondrasek, B.; Lesko, J. J.; Fallon, J. J.; Bortner, M.; D’Ambra, C.; Freeman, B. D.; Riffle, J. S. Synthesis and characterization of a phosphine oxide based poly(arylene ether ketone) and blends with poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide) for gas separations. Polymer. 2018, 138, pp 156-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2018.01.043

McGinnis, R. L.; Reimund, K.; Ren, J.; Xia, L.; Chowdhury, M. R.; Sun, X.; Abril, M.; Moon, J. D.; Merrick, M. M.; Park, J.; Stevens, K. A.; McCutcheon, J. R.; Freeman, B. D. Large scale polymeric carbon nanotube membranes with sub-1.27 nm pores. Science Advances. 2018, 4, e1700938. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1700938

Shaver, A.; Moon, J. D.; Savacool, D.; Zhang, W.; Narang, G.; Miller, G.; Vondrasek, B.; Lesko, J. J.; Freeman, B. D.; Riffle, J. S.; McGrath, J. E. Poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide) blends with a poly(arylene ether ketone) for gas separation membranes. Polymer. 2017, 114, pp 135-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2017.02.041

Rowlett, J. R.; Liu, Q.; Zhang, W.; Moon, J. D.; Dose, M. E.; Riffle, J. S.; Freeman, B. D.; McGrath, J. E. Gas transport properties and characterization of UV crosslinked poly(phenylene oxide-co-arylene ether ketone) copolymers. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2016, 4, pp 16047-16056. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6TA05320C

Luo, S.; Stevens, K. A.; Park, J. S.; Moon, J. D.; Liu, Q.; Freeman, B. D.; Guo, R. Highly CO2-selective gas separation membranes based on segmented copolymers of poly(ethylene oxide) reinforced with pentiptycene-containing polyimide hard segments. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. 2016, 8 (3), pp 2306-2317. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5b11355

Borjigin, H.; Stevens, K. A.; Liu, R.; Moon, J. D.; Shaver, A. T.; Swinnea, S.; Freeman, B. D.; Riffle, J. S.; McGrath, J. E. Synthesis and characterization of polybenzimidazoles derived from tetraaminodiphenylsulfone for high temperature gas separation membranes. Polymer. 2015, 71, pp 135-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2015.06.021

Horne, W. J.; Andrews, M. A.; Shannon, M. S.; Terrill, K. L.; Moon, J. D.; Hayward, S. S.; Bara, J. E. Effect of branched and cycloalkyl functionalities on CO2 separation performance of poly(IL) membranes. Separation and Purification Technology. 2015, 155, pp 89-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2015.02.009

Shannon, M.; Irvin, A.; Liu, H.; Moon, J. D.; Hindman, M.; Turner, C. H.; Bara, J. Chemical and physical absorption of SO2 by N-functionalized imidazoles: Experimental results and molecular-level insight. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 2014, 54 (1), pp 462-471. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ie503752h

Bara, J. E.; Moon, J. D.; Reclusado, K. R.; Whitley, J. W. COSMOTherm as a tool for estimating the thermophysical properties of alkylimidazoles as solvents for CO2 separations. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 2013, 52 (15), pp 5498–5506. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ie400094h

Hindman, M. S.; Stanton, A. D.; Irvin, A. C.; Wallace, D. A.; Moon, J. D.; Reclusado, K. R.; Liu, H.; Belmore, K. A.; Liang, Q.; Shannon, M. S.; Turner, C. H.; Bara, J. E. Synthesis of 1,2-dialkyl-, 1,4(5)-dialkyl- and 1,2,4(5)-trialkyl-imidazoles via a one-pot method. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 2013, 52 (34), pp 11880-11887. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ie401861b

Patents and Patent Applications

Freeman, B. D.; Paul, D. R.; Moon, J. D. 2023. Thermally-rearranged polymer blends for gas separation membranes. U.S. Patent No. US 11,613,649 B2.

Last updated: February 2024