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Highly Permeable Polylactic Acid Membrane Grafted with Quaternary Ammonium Salt for Effective and Durable Water Disinfection

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c11551

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functional membrane; quaternary ammonium salt (QAS); antimicrobial; water disinfection; polylactic acid (PLA)

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  1. Shenzhen Angel Drinking Water Industrial Group Corporation (Shenzhen, China) [CR2022-18]

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Given the increasing demand for drinking water purifiers, researchers have successfully developed highly permeable membranes with strong antimicrobial properties. These membranes, created through chemical grafting of quaternary ammonium salt molecules onto biodegradable polylactic acid substrates, exhibit excellent antimicrobial efficiency and high water filtration rates.
Given the increasing usage of drinking water purifiers, highly permeable membranes with strong antimicrobial functions are desperately desirable for effective and durable water disinfection. Hereby, we prepared such antimicrobial membranes by chemical grafting of quaternary ammonium salt (QAS) molecules, 3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyldimethyloctadecyl ammonium chloride (TPMMC), onto air plasma pretreated biodegradable polylactic acid (PLA) substrates. The high chemical grafting density promoted very strong and positive zeta potential charge of the resulted PLA-QAS membrane, contributing to effective and broad-spectrum antimicrobial efficiencies (>99.99%) against different microbes, including fungi and conventional and drug-resistant bacteria. The solid grafting of QAS molecules produced a durable antimicrobial performance of the PLA-QAS membrane. In addition, the pleated filter (0.45 m(2)) of PLA-QAS membrane showed outstanding bacteria rejection properties (>99.99%) and excellent washing durability (up to 20 m(3) water) even at very high water filtration rates (up to 4 L/min). The disinfection mechanism was clarified that negatively charged bacteria could be rapidly adsorbed to positively charged PLA-QAS spinnings, followed by devastating cell membrane damage to bacterial debris, leaving a clean environment without significant biofilm and biofouling formation.

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