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ACS NANO
卷 15, 期 4, 页码 7522-7535出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c00936
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ionic polyamidoamine dendrimer; polyamide membrane; charged nanochannel; ion sieving/transport mechanism; low/high-valent ion separation
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资金
- National 863 Program of China [2012AA03A602]
- National Key R&D Program of China [2017YFE0114100]
- Nature Science Foundation Committee of China [21805240]
This article discusses the construction of ion-selective nanochannels in pressure-driven membranes for the separation of low/high-valent ions. By incorporating PAMAM dendrimers into PA membranes, defect-free PA nanofilms with internal and external nanochannels were successfully created, improving water molecule transport speed and membrane selectivity.
Separating low/high-valent ions with sub-nanometer sizes is a crucial yet challenging task in various areas (e.g., within environmental, healthcare, chemical, and energy engineering). Satisfying high separation precision requires membranes with exceptionally high selectivity. One way to realize this is constructing well-designed ion-selective nanochannels in pressure-driven membranes where the separation mechanism relies on combined steric, dielectric exclusion, and Donnan effects. To this aim, charged nanochannels in polyamide (PA) membranes are created by incorporating ionic polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers via interfacial polymerization. Both sub-10 nm sizes of the ionic PAMAM dendrimer molecules and their gradient distributions in the PA nanofilms contribute to the successful formation of defect-free PA nanofilms, containing both internal (intramolecular voids) and external (interfacial voids between the ionic PAMAM dendrimers and the PA matrix) nanochannels for fast transport of water molecules. The external nanochannels with tunable ionizable groups endow the PA membranes with both high low/high-valent co-ion selectivity and chemical cleaning tolerance, while the ion sieving/transport mechanism was analyzed by employing the Donnan steric pore model with dielectric exclusion.
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