A catalytic membrane is a membrane with catalytic properties. The catalytic activity can be intrinsic to the material itself, as in the case of membranes made of Pd, TiO2, and H-ZSM-5 zeolite, which are catalytic for specific reactions, or can be obtained by coating the external or the internal (porous) surfaces of the membrane with the catalyst (metal or oxides) or even by occluding the catalyst (metal nanoclusters, zeolites, activated carbon, metal complexes) inside a dense polymer matrix (Gryaznov 1986, 1992; Irusta et al. 1998; Gobina and Hughes 1994; Saracco and Specchia 2000; Itoh 2000; Dittmeyer et al. 2001; Piera et al. 2001; Julbe 2005; van Dyk et al. 2003; Marcano and Tsotsis 2002; Basile 2012; Fritsch and Peinemann 1995).
Catalytic membranes can be inorganic (metallic, ceramic, or carbon made) or polymeric in their nature. Examples of dense inorganic catalytic membranes are the ones made of palladium, which are catalytically active for hydrogenation reactions (though...
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Sousa, J.M. (2016). Catalytic Membranes. In: Drioli, E., Giorno, L. (eds) Encyclopedia of Membranes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44324-8_116
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