期刊
JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE
卷 644, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2021.120091
关键词
One-step; Electrospinning; Gradual-transition; Wettability gradient; Directional fluid transport
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51663004]
- Science and Technology Department of Guizhou Province [[2019] 5607, [2017]5788]
- Incubation Project of Guizhou University [[2019] 19]
This paper presents a one-step strategy for fabricating membranes with gradual-transition wettability gradient (GMs) and demonstrates their potential in applications such as liquid transport, floating oil collection, and oil/water separation.
Gradual-transition wettability gradient is a highly promising wettability profile for driving fluid directionally transport across the thickness of porous membranes. However, the fabrication of such membranes is still chal-lenging, limiting their further application in various fields. Here, we report a one-step strategy to fabricate membranes with gradual-transition wettability gradient (GMs) by programmed in-line-blending electrospinning polymers (poly (epsilon-caprolactone) (PCL) and poly (epsilon-caprolactone-co-ethylene glycol) (PCE)) with compatible segments but obviously different wettabilities. The results demonstrate that two opposite gradual-transition wettability gradients across the thickness are successfully fabricated in GMs, and resulting GMs exhibit excel-lent directional liquid transport property that can only allow liquid drops and continuous flow to permeate across the thickness in the direction from the lyophobicity-rich side to the lyophilicity-rich side while blocking the permeation process in the reverse direction. Additionally, no matter under high or low gravity conditions, the directional fluid transport flux of membranes with different wettability profiles improves as the gradient layers increase from 3 to 78, corresponding to the transition of wettability profile from 3-layered Janus wettability to 78-layered gradual-transition wettability. As a result, GMs achieve much faster directional fluid transport fluxes than membranes with abrupt-change wettability gradient (AMs) and homogeneous wettability, owing to the acceleration of internal driving forces originating from the gradual-transition wettability gradient. Based on this particular property, GMs also show great potentials in ultrafast directional floating oil collection and energy-saving directional separation of oil/water mixtures, offering new insight for designing and fabricating wettability-anisotropic porous membranes with potential and versatility in multiple applications.
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