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JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE
Volume 563, Issue -, Pages 625-632Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2018.05.044
Keywords
MXene; Mixed matrix membrane; Solvent dehydration; Pervaporation; Chitosan
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- China Regenerative Medicine International (CRMI)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21490585, 21476107, 51861135203]
- Ministry of Education of China [IRT17R54]
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Pervaporation dehydration is an energy efficient process for purifying organic solvents, whose application depends on the development of highly permeable and selective membranes. In this work, synthesized two-dimensional Ti3C2Tx MXene nanosheets were incorporated into chitosan (CS) to fabricate a new MXene/CS mixed-matrix membrane used for solvent dehydration via pervaporation process. The morphology, chemical structure and surface hydrophilicity of the membranes were studied by SEM, AFM, IR, XPS and water contact angle measurement. Three kinds of organic solvents, ethanol, ethyl acetate and dimethyl carbonate were used for evaluating the membrane dehydration performance. The results indicated that incorporation of MXene nanosheets did not increase the surface sorption, whereas the assembled MXene laminates with interlayer channels greatly enhanced the permeation of water molecular through the membrane. Thus, flux and separation factor of CS membrane were simultaneously improved by introducing the MXene nanosheets. Specifically, the optimized 3 wt% MXene/CS MMM exhibited total flux of similar to 1.4-1.5 kg/(m(2) h) and separation factor of 1421, 4898 and 906 for dehydration of ethanol, ethyl acetate and dimethyl carbonate at 50 degrees C, respectively.
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