Journal
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 246, Issue 4, Pages 444-450Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2004.11.067
Keywords
layer-by-layer; polyelectrolyte; multilayer; membrane; molecular sieving; ion separation
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The transport of various neutral and charged aromatic compounds across poly(diallyl dimethylammonium chloride)/ poly(sodium styrenesulfonate) (PDADMA/PSS) and poly(allylamine hydrochloride)/poly(sodium styrenesulfonate) (PAH/PSS) multilayer membranes was investigated. The solutes were phenol (Ph), hydroquinone (1,4-BD), naphthalene (Np), pyrene (Py), triphenylene (Tp), alkali metal salts of benzene sulfonate (Bs), naphthalene 2-sulfonate (Ns), methyl orange (MO), and isomeric benzene disulfonates (1,2-, 1,3-BDS). For the neutral compounds, a size-selective transport was found, the transport being controlled by the pore size of the membrane and the size of the aromatic solute. The sieving effect from the membranes was so pronounced that mean pore sizes of 0.82 +/- 0.09 and 0.67 +/- 0.04 nm could be determined for PDADMA/PSS and PAH/PSS, respectively. Size exclusion leads to separation factors alpha(Ph/Py)approximate to 13 and alpha(Ph/Np)approximate to 28 using PDADMA/PSS and PAH/PSS membranes, respectively. For charged aromatic compounds, the transport is both size- and charge-selective. The charge-selectivity is based on Donnan rejection of permeating ions from the equally charged parts of the membrane, the rejection for dianions being much stronger than for monoanions comparable with the rejection of mono- and divalent inorganic ions. While size-based separation across PAH/PSS is only moderate (alpha(Bs/Ns)approximate to 4), the charge-based separation is high (alpha(Bs/1,3-BDS)approximate to 65). (c) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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