Journal
JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE
Volume 448, Issue -, Pages 180-189Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2013.08.012
Keywords
Nanofiltration; Porosity; Interfacial polymerization; Positively charged membrane
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Funding
- National Science Foundation of China [51133008, 21074133]
- National High Technology Research and Development Program of China [2012AA03A601]
- Development of Scientific and Technological Project of the Jilin Province [20100322]
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A novel positively charged thin film composite nanofiltration (NF) membrane comprising a nanoporous hyper-crosslinked polyamide barrier layer has been developed by utilizing the highly functional 2,2',4,4',6,6'-biphenyl hexaacyl chloride (BHAC) monomer bearing a rigid and contorted biphenyl skeleton which undergoes interfacial polymerization with piperazine (PIP) on a polyacrylonitrile (PAN) support membrane. The physicochemical properties of the corresponding BHAC-PIP barrier layer were characterized with respect to chemical structure, surface charge performance, morphology as well as film thickness. Moreover, the NF properties studied revealed that the optimized BHAC-PIP composite membrane having a mean effective pore radius of 0.44 nm and molecular weight cut off (MWCO) of 570 Da exhibits high efficiencies for many NE applications including rejection of divalent cations, removal of basic dyes and selective separation of mixed cations. More importantly, the developed BHAC-PIP composite membrane shows higher pure water permeability of 15.3 lm(-2) h(-1) bar when compared with a number of previously reported positively charged NE membranes, the common trimesoyl chloride (TMC)-PIP membrane, as well as our previously developed 3,3',5,5'-biphenyl tetraacyl chloride (BTEC)-PIP NE membranes. Furthermore, comparative studies on the porous properties of the three unsupported BHAC-PIP, BTEC-PIP and TMC-PIP polyamides measured by means of gas sorption experiments indicate the greater porosity of the hyper-crosslinkecl BHAC-PIP polyamide matrix, which is believed to give rise to the highly permeable feature of the resultant BHAC-PIP polyamide barrier layer. This study may provide useful insights for the molecular-level design of NF membrane materials with improved water permeability. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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