Nanoparticle-templated Nanofiltration Membranes for Ultrahigh Performance Desalination
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Academic
Abstract
Nanofiltration (NF) membranes with ultrahigh permeance and high rejection are highly beneficial for efficient desalination and wastewater treatment. Improving water permeance while maintaining the high rejection of state-of-the-art thin film composite (TFC) NF membranes remains a great challenge.
Herein, we report the fabrication of a TFC NF membrane with a crumpled polyamide (PA) layer via interfacial polymerization on a single-walled carbon nanotubes/polyether sulfone composite support loaded with nanoparticles as a sacrificial templating material, using metal-organic framework nanoparticles (ZIF-8) as an example.
The nanoparticles, which can be removed by water dissolution after interfacial polymerization, facilitate the formation of a rough PA active layer with crumpled nanostructure. The NF membrane obtained thereby exhibits high permeance up to 53.5 l m−2h−1 bar−1 with a rejection above 95% for Na2SO4, yielding an overall desalination performance superior to state-of-the-art NF membranes reported so far.
Our work provides a simple avenue to fabricate advanced PA NF membranes with outstanding performance.
Zhenyi Wang, Zhangxin Wang, Shihong Lin, Huile Jin, Shoujian Gao, Yuzhang Zhu & Jian Jin
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Taxonomy
- Filtration
- Filtration Solutions
- Nanotechnology
- Filtration
- Desalination
- Membrane Filtration
- Filtration
- Sea Water Desalinisation
- Nano
- Desalination
- Nano Technology
- Nanofiltration