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- Title
Functionalized Graphene Oxide Modified Polyethersulfone Membranes for Low-Pressure Anionic Dye/Salt Fractionation.
- Authors
Liu, Lifen; Xie, Xin; Zambare, Rahul S.; Selvaraj, Antony Prince James; Sowrirajalu, Bhuvana NIL; Song, Xiaoxiao; Tang, Chuyang Y.; Gao, Congjie
- Abstract
In this study, polyelectrolyte assembled functionalized graphene oxide (PE-GO) membranes were fabricated through a one-step charge facilitated deposition method for high performance dye/salt separation. According to the intercalation of polydopamine (PDA) and (ionic liquid) IL functional moieties into the GO membranes, the pore size of the resulted PE-pGO and PE-iGO membrane increased from 2.69 nm to 4.13 nm and 6.54 nm, respectively. Correspondingly, a pure water flux of 13.8 ± 2.2, 36.7 ± 3.4, and 52.1 ± 6.7 L m−1 h−1 bar−1 was achieved for PE-GO, PE-pGO and PE-iGO membrane, respectively. PE-iGO membrane with the largest pore size could be operated with significant water permeability (28.3 to 38.3 L m−1 h−1 bar−1) at a low operating pressure range of 0.5–2 bar (dye concentration = 100 ppm, salt concentration = 5 g/L). More importantly, functionalities introduced to the GO nanosheets are found to impact the dye adsorption to the membrane surface. The IL intercalation promotes the elution of dye molecules from the IL moieties at elevated pH, therefore enhancing the efficiency of alkaline washing of the membrane. By contrast, the intercalation of PDA weakens such efficiency due to its strong adhesion force to the dye molecules even at the alkaline condition.
- Subjects
POLYETHERSULFONE; POLYMERIC membranes; POLYMER fractionation; GRAPHENE oxide; MOIETIES (Chemistry)
- Publication
Polymers (20734360), 2018, Vol 10, Issue 7, p795
- ISSN
2073-4360
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/polym10070795