2022, Volume 16, Issue 9
Engineering >> 2022, Volume 16, Issue 9 doi: 10.1016/j.eng.2020.06.033
Building a Highly Stable Ultrathin Nanoporous Layer Assisted by Glucose for Desalination
a MIIT Key Laboratory of Critical Materials Technology for New Energy Conversion and Storage & State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
b MOE Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Molding & National Engineering Research Center for Advanced Polymer Processing Technology, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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Abstract
Although nanoporous membranes are of great interest in desalination, it is still challenging to construct highly permeable nanoporous membranes with excellent rejections for an efficient desalination process. In this work, highly permeable nanoporous membranes were built from renewable resources, assisted by the versatile functions of glucose and dopamine, with coupling reactive groups via interfacial reaction with 1,3,5-benzenetricarbonyl trichloride (TMC). The small molecules (0.66 nm) of glucose, which have high hydrophilicity, can diffuse into the membrane for an effective reaction to ensure structural integration. Our novel ultrathin (~44 nm) nanofiltration (NF) membrane exhibits ultra-high Na2SO4 flux and excellent rejection of Na2SO4 (66.5 L∙m−2∙h−1, 97.3%) and MgSO4 (63.0 L∙m−2∙h−1, 92.1%) under a pressure of 5 bar (1 bar = 105 Pa) which is much superior to the performance of natural-product NF membranes. The membrane demonstrates excellent long-term stability, as well as tremendous acid-base and alkali-base stability and high anti-pollution capacity. The designed membrane materials and architecture open a new door to biopolymer-based separation membranes beyond existing membrane materials.
Keywords
Nanoporous membrane ; Renewable resources ; Nanofiltration ; Desalination ; Glucose
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