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JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 135, Issue 27, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/app.46462
Keywords
electrospinning; membranes; separation techniques
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- Chun-Tsung Program of SJTU
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21577089]
- Sinopec Zhenhai refining and chemical company
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The efficient separation and recovery of oil from water-in-oil emulsion poses a great challenge because of the rapid development of the petrochemical industry throughout the world. In this study, a facile method to develop a ZIF-8 functionalized hierarchical micronanofiber membrane for high-efficiency oil/water separation was investigated. The electrospun PVDF/ZnO membrane was made, on which ZIF-8 crystal seeds were then created with the revitalizing step and expanded in the growth step, and finally functionalized hierarchical micronanofiber PVDF-g-ZIF-8 membrane was obtained. Results showed that oleophilic ZIF-8 crystals on the surface of PVDF membrane dramatically increased the wettability of oil and tuned PVDF membrane from olephobicity to oleophilicity. The hydrophobic/lipophilic PVDF-g-ZIF-8 membrane with a water contact angle up to 158 degrees and a toluene contact angle down to 0 degrees provides its separation efficiency for water-in-oil emulsion of 92.93% in an environmentally friendly and energy-saving manner. (c) 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2018, 135, 46462.
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