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Wang Z, Liu H, Liu Z, Wang Y, Yang J, Bai L, Wang J, Zhang H, Li G, Liang H. Nanofiltration membranes with fast water transport induced by controlled interfacial diffusion to enhance desalination and micropollutant removal. WATER RESEARCH 2025; 273:123070. [PMID: 39742634 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2024.123070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2024] [Revised: 12/11/2024] [Accepted: 12/29/2024] [Indexed: 01/03/2025]
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Nanofiltration (NF) membranes offer tremendous potential in wastewater reuse, desalination, and resource recovery to alleviate water scarcity and environmental contamination. However, separating micropollutants and charged ions from wastewater while maintaining high water permeation remains challenging for conventional NF membranes. Customizing diffusion and interaction behavior of monomers at membrane-forming interfaces is promising for regulating interior pore structures and surface morphology properties for polyamide NF membranes, reaching efficient screening and retaining of solutes from water. In this work, photopolymerization occurred on two-phase interfaces of interfacial polymerization to modulate monomer diffusion toward reaction interfaces, accelerating reaction process and narrowing reaction area thus improving interior pore uniformity and free-volume regularity. Density distributions and interactive energies of monomers at the interface were explored to illustrate the effect of monomer diffusive behavior regulated by photopolymerization on membrane physicochemical properties and separation performance through molecular dynamics simulations. Pore size distributions were simulated to verify experimental results. Layers of nodules and rod-like structures appeared on the membrane surfaces. Membranes with interface photopolymerization exhibited a water permeability of 46.0 L·m-2·h-1·bar-1 more than five-fold that of the control, with improved monovalent and multivalent ions separation. Surface photopolymerized membranes with water permeation of 26.6 L·m-2·h-1·bar-1 (more than three times as high as the control) achieved excellent micropollutant and salt removal. This work provides a foundation for constructing NF membranes with specific separation functions for environmental applications.
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- Zihui Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, PR China
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Su Y, Peng H, Liu X, Li J, Zhao Q. High performance, pH-resistant membranes for efficient lithium recovery from spent batteries. Nat Commun 2024; 15:10295. [PMID: 39604329 PMCID: PMC11603373 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-54503-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2024] [Accepted: 11/12/2024] [Indexed: 11/29/2024] Open
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Cation separation under extreme pH is crucial for lithium recovery from spent batteries, but conventional polyamide membranes suffer from pH-induced hydrolysis. Preparation of high performance nanofiltration membranes with excellent pH-resistance remains a challenge. Here we synthesize a high performance nanofiltration membrane (1,4,7,10-Tetraazacyclododecane (TAD)-1,3,5-Tris(bromomethyl)benzene (TBMB) thin film composite membranes (TFCMs)) with excellent pH-stability through interfacial quaternization reaction between TAD and TBMB. Due to the high stability of "C-N" bonds in TAD-TBMB TFCMs, its separation performance is stable even after 70 days immersion in concentrated acid (3 M H2SO4, HNO3, or HCl) and base (3 M NaOH), which is at least 15 times more stable than benchmark commercial membranes. The membrane shows an overall separation performance (11.3 L m-2 h-1 bar-1 (LMHB), RCo2+: 97% in 2 M H2SO4) due to the size sieving and the intensified charge repulsion, outperforming many of the state-of-the-art membranes. Finally, the TAD-TBMB TFCM remains stable during 30-days continuous nanofiltration of 2 M H2SO4 and leachate (2 M H2SO4, ions: 6.2 g L-1) from spent batteries.
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- Yafei Su
- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074, Wuhan, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074, Wuhan, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074, Wuhan, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074, Wuhan, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074, Wuhan, P. R. China.
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Zhu J, Meng W, Xue Q, Zhang K. Two dimensional sulfonated molybdenum disulfide (S–MoS2) thin-film nanocomposite nanofiltration membrane for selective desalination. J Memb Sci 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2023.121574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/13/2023]
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Wang X, Gao N, Wang L, Liao Y. Polyelectrolyte interlayer assisted interfacial polymerization fabrication of a dual-charged composite nanofiltration membrane on ceramic substrate with high performance. J Memb Sci 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2023.121506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2023]
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Recent Advanced Development of Acid-Resistant Thin-Film Composite Nanofiltration Membrane Preparation and Separation Performance in Acidic Environments. SEPARATIONS 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/separations10010020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Membrane filtration technology has attracted extensive attention in academia and industry due to its advantages of eco-friendliness related to environmental protection and high efficiency. Polyamide thin-film composite nanofiltration (PA TFC NF) membranes have been widely used due to their high separation performance. Non-acid-resistant PA TFC NF membranes face tremendous challenges in an acidic environment. Novel and relatively acid-resistant polysulfonamide-based and triazine-based TFC NF membranes have been developed, but these have a serious trade-off in terms of permeability and selectivity. Hence, how to improve acid resistance of TFC NF membranes and their separation performance in acidic environments is a pivotal issue for the design and preparation of these membranes. This review first highlights current strategies for improving the acid resistance of PA TFC NF membranes by regulating the composition and structure of the separation layer of the membrane performed by manipulating and optimizing the construction method and then summarizes the separation performances of these acid-resistant TFC NF membranes in acidic environments, as studied in recent years.
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Polyaniline-based acid resistant membranes for controllable ion rejection performance. Sep Purif Technol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2022.122910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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3, 3′-diaminodiphenyl sulfone engagement in polysulfonamide-based acid-resistant nanofiltration membrane fabrication for efficient separation performance and heavy metal ions removal from wastewater. J Memb Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2022.120909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Cao Y, Wan Y, Chen C, Luo J. Preparation of acid-resistant nanofiltration membrane with dually charged separation layer for enhanced salts removal. Sep Purif Technol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2022.120974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Zhang Y, Guo Y, Wan Y, Pan G, Yu H, Du W, Shi H, Zhao M, Zhao G, Wu C, Liu Y. Tailoring molecular structure in the active layer of thin-film composite membrane for extreme pH condition. JOURNAL OF POLYMER RESEARCH 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s10965-022-03155-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Bulk cross-linked hydroxyethyl cellulose-silica composite membrane for acid-stable nanofiltration. J Memb Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2022.120389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Lasisi KH, Zhang K. Polyamine-based thin-film composite nanofiltration membrane embedded with catalytic chemical additive for enhanced separation performance and acid stability. J Memb Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2021.120155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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