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JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE
Volume 320, Issue 1-2, Pages 477-482Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2008.04.033
Keywords
polyvinylidene fluoride membrane; morphology; diffusion induced phase separation; thermally induced phase separation; crystallization
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In this study, the strong morphology changes of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membrane were demonstrated by changing phase separation process from a diffusion induced phase separation (DIPS) to its combination with a thermally induced phase separation (TIPS) which can be attained via changing the diluent-dibutyl phthalate (DBP) content in solvent-N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMAc). The solvent became poor when it mixed with DBP, so TIPS could occur in the quenching process which resulted in a rapid crystallization process. In this process, the porous skin and interlocked small crystallite particle (or bi-continuous) morphologies were formed, while the porous skin and leaf-like network morphology came from the rapidly crystallizing in TIPS, the large spherulite and dense skin could be attributed to the relaxed crystallization in DIPS, the finger-like macro-void and dense skin resulted from the liquid-liquid phase separation in DIPS. Simply speaking, the different membrane morphologies can be obtained by changing the DBP content in DMAc and the coagulation bath temperature. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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