期刊
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
卷 56, 期 3, 页码 1927-1937出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c06156
关键词
nanofiltration; interfacial polymerization; atom-transfer radical polymerization; thermoresponsive; fouling control
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51778170]
- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment [2019DX01]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
- China Scholarship Council (CSC)
Despite extensive research, fouling remains a major challenge for nanofiltration membranes. However, a highly antifouling membrane has been successfully fabricated by grafting poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) chains onto a bromine-containing polyamide layer. The resulting membrane exhibits double permeance compared to the pristine membrane, while maintaining the rejection of multivalent ions. Additionally, PNIPAM chains provide better deposition and adhesion resistance, reducing fouling and promoting flux recovery.
In spite of extensive research, fouling is still the main challenge for nanofiltration membranes, generating an extra transport resistance and requiring a larger operational pressure in practical applications. We fabricated a highly antifouling nano-filtration membrane by grafting poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) chains on a bromine-containing polyamide layer. The resulting membrane was found to have a double permeance compared to the pristine membrane, while the rejection of multivalent ions remained the same. In addition, PNIPAM chains yielded a better deposition resistance and adhesion resistance, thereby mitigating the increase of fouling and promoting the recovery of flux during the filtration and traditional cleaning stages, respectively. Moreover, PNIPAM chains shrank when the water temperature was above the lower critical solution temperature (LCST), indicating the formation of a buffer layer between the membrane and pollutants. The buffer layer would eliminate the membrane-foulant interaction energy, thus further enhancing the detachment of pollutants. This simple and efficient cleaning method could act as an enhanced cleaning procedure to remove irreversible fouling. This provides new insights into the fabrication of enhanced antifouling membranes using smart responsive polymer chains.
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