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JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE LETTERS
卷 3, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.memlet.2023.100054
关键词
Nanofiltration; Epoxide-based membranes; TFC membranes; Tuning performance; Synthesis-structure-performance relationship
Membrane technology offers promise as a breakthrough separation technology, but is often limited by the chemical stability of existing materials. However, newly developed membranes utilizing epoxide-based chemistry show potential as stable thin-film composite membranes. This study demonstrates the versatility of epoxide chemistry and its ability to tailor membrane performance in a controllable way.
Membrane technology offers promise as a breakthrough separation technology in many applications, but is frequently limited by the chemical stability of currently available membrane materials. Recently developed membranes utilizing epoxide-based chemistry have shown great potential as intrinsically stable thin-film composite membranes in water-based applications. However, as these membranes are in their infancy, many synthesis parameters are still to be explored. In this study, the versatility of epoxide chemistry is exploited to demonstrate its potential to serve as a new platform for membrane synthesis, even beyond the field of aqueous applications. It is proven here how the membrane performance can be tailored in a controllable way between 20 - 85% NaCl rejection with a water permeance between 0.5 - 3 L m - 2 h - 1 bar - 1 by simply selecting epoxide monomers and initiators of different size and functionality. A systematic increase in water permeance and salt passage was observed for epoxide monomers that exhibit a lower functionality and a lower number of aromatic groups, while a threshold nucleophilicity and aliphatic chain length of the initiator are required to obtain a salt-selective layer. This work demonstrates the possibility to easily and predictably tune membrane performance in the tight nanofiltration range, while simultaneously achieving a better understanding of the synthesis-structure-performance relationship of this new class of promising membranes.
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