Journal
ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 32, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201907014
Keywords
block copolymer; nanochannels; nanofiltration membranes; polyelectrolytes; post-modification
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Membrane-based separation of organic molecules with 1-2 nm lateral dimensions is a demanding but rather underdeveloped technology. The major challenge is to fabricate membranes having distinct nanochannels with desired functionality. Here, a bottom-up strategy to produce such a membrane using a tailor-made triblock terpolymer featuring miscible end blocks with two different functional groups is demonstrated. A scalable multifunctional integral asymmetric isoporous membrane is fabricated by the solvent evaporation-induced self-assembly of the block copolymer combined with nonsolvent-induced phase separation. Readily functionalized are the membrane nanopores using positively and negatively charged moieties by two straightforward gas-solid reactions. The pores of the post-functionalized membranes act as target-specific functional soft nanochannels due to swelling of the polyelectrolyte blocks in a hydrated state. The membranes show unprecedented separation selectivity of small molecules based on size and/or charge which demonstrates the potential of the proposed strategy to prepare next-generation nanofiltration membranes.
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