Journal
DESALINATION
Volume 476, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2019.114227
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GO/NH2-Fe3O4 membranes; Dye/salt mixture separation; High flux; Low NaCl rejection; NH2-Fe3O4
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21576114]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [JUSRP11933, JUSRP21936]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20190603]
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Graphene oxide (GO)-based nanofiltration membranes, featuring well-ordered microscopic structure, well-defined 2D nanochannels and superior molecular sieving ability, have attracted sustained research interest in molecular and ionic separation. However, most of current GO laminar membrane have a poor water flux and high rejection of both dyes and salts, which is not suitable for the dye/salt mixture separation. Herein, we report a vacuum filtration strategy to fabricate GO/NH2-Fe3O4 nanofiltration membranes with high water flux and excellent separation performance for dye/salts mixture by introducing NH2-Fe3O4. The NH2-Fe3O4 is not only worked as the rigid spherical nanospacer to tune GO interlayer spacing but also as crosslinkers to improve the stability of GO membrane in water. FTIR, XRD, SEM, zeta potential and contact angle were applied to analyze the chemical composition and morphology of as-prepared membranes. The effect of intercalated NH2-Fe3O4 nanoparticles on overall performance of the GO/NH2-Fe3O4 membranes was systematically investigated. The resulted membrane with 8 wt% of NH2-Fe3O4 loading has high water flux of up to 78 Lm(-2) h(-1), which is 4.8 times higher than that of pure GO membrane. Moreover, such membrane also displays high congo red rejection (94%) and low NaCI rejection (similar to 15%), rendering the membranes promising for dye/salt mixtures separation.
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