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Ion-Rejection, Electrokinetic and Electrochemical Properties of a Nanoporous Track-Etched Membrane and Their Interpretation by Means of Space Charge Model

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LANGMUIR
Volume 25, Issue 16, Pages 9605-9614

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la900737q

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  1. Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN)
  2. ICREA Funding Source: Custom

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Due to their straight cylindrical pores, nanoporous track-etched membranes are suitable materials for studies of the fundamentals of nanofluidics. In contrast to single nanochannels, the nano/micro interface, in this case, can be quantitatively considered within the scope of macroscopically ID models. The pressure-induced changes in the concentration of dilute KCl solutions (salt rejection phenomenon) have been studied experimentally with a commercially available nanoporous track-etched membrane of poly (ethylene terephthalate) (pore diameter ca. 21 nm). Besides that, we have also studied the concomitant stationary transmembrane electrical phenomenon (Filtration potential) and carried out time-resolved measurements of the electrical response to a rapid pressure switch-off (within 5-10 ms). The latter has enabled us to split the Filtration potential into the streaming potential and membrane potential components. In this way, we could also confirm that the observed nonlinearity of Filtration potential, as a function of the transmembrane volume flow, was primarily caused by the salt rejection. The results Of experimental measurements have been interpreted by means of it space charge model with the surface charge density being a single fitting parameter (the pore size was estimated from the membrane hydraulic permeability). By Using the surface charge density fitted to the salt rejection data, the results of electrical measurements could be reproduced theoretically with a typical accuracy of 10% or better. Taking into account the simplifications made in the modeling, this accuracy appears to be good and confirms the quantitative applicability of the basic concept of space charge model to the description of transport properties of dilute electrolyte solution,., in nanochannels of ca. 20 nm.

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