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Nanoparticle-templated nanofiltration membranes for ultrahigh performance desalination

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Wang, Zhenyi, Wang, Zhangxin, Lin, Shihong, Jin, Huile, Gao, Shoujian, Zhu, Yuzhang, Jin, Jian·2018·Nature Communications
DOI 10.1038/s41467-018-04467-3
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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−2 h−1 bar−1 with a rejection above 95% for Na 2 SO 4, 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.

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Authors
Wang, Z., Wang, Z., Lin, S., Jin, H., Gao, S., Zhu, Y., & Jin, J.
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Nature Communications
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2018-05-21
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9
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2004-2004
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2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1038/s41467-018-04467-3
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