Disclosed herein are a polyimide dope solution composition, a method for
preparing a hollow fiber using the composition and a hollow fiber
prepared by the method. More specifically, disclosed are a method for
preparing a hollow fiber, comprising preparing a polyimide dope solution
composition comprising polyhydroxyimide, polythiolimide or
polyaminoimide, spinning the composition to prepare a hollow fiber, and
thermally rearranging the hollow fiber, and the hollow fiber prepared by
the method.
In accordance with the method, a hollow fiber made of a high free volume
polymer membrane can be prepared by spinning the dope solution
composition to prepare a hollow fiber and thermally rearranging the
hollow fiber via thermal treatment. The hollow fiber thus prepared
exhibits excellent gas permeability and selectivity, thus being suitable
for use as a gas separation membrane.