Advanced MembranesPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.advmem.2024.100091
Lijuan Qin, Guanying Dong, Yi Nie, R. Fakhrullin, Bing Zhang, Yatao Zhang
{"title":"Progress in design of halloysite nanotubes-polymer nanocomposite membranes and their applications","authors":"Lijuan Qin, Guanying Dong, Yi Nie, R. Fakhrullin, Bing Zhang, Yatao Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.advmem.2024.100091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advmem.2024.100091","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100033,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Membranes","volume":"1 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139815754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Advanced MembranesPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-03-18DOI: 10.1016/j.advmem.2024.100095
Yue Shen , Gilles Van Eygen , Bin Wu , Chao Wu , Ming-Jie Yin , Yan Zhao , Bart Van der Bruggen , Quan-Fu An
{"title":"In-situ interfacial polymerization of zwitterionic nanofiltration membranes with anti-scaling performance","authors":"Yue Shen , Gilles Van Eygen , Bin Wu , Chao Wu , Ming-Jie Yin , Yan Zhao , Bart Van der Bruggen , Quan-Fu An","doi":"10.1016/j.advmem.2024.100095","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.advmem.2024.100095","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Mineral scaling caused by multivalent metal ions can significantly hinder the long-term operation of nanofiltration membranes. In this study, <em>in-situ</em> interfacial polymerization including a posttreatment by using a citric acid solution was employed in order to mitigate scaling on the membrane surface. Under the optimal conditions (15 min of posttreatment with a 2 M citric acid solution), the membrane water permeance increased from 5.76 ± 0.2 to 15.1 ± 1.8 L⋅m<sup>−2</sup>⋅h<sup>−1</sup>·bar<sup>−1</sup> for the pristine and the optimal membrane, respectively. The molecular weight cut-off of the optimal membrane was 399 Da, which allows for the removal of organic micropollutants in groundwater. Furthermore, the resulting membrane showed a Na<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub> and CaCl<sub>2</sub> rejection of 92.5 ± 1.9 and 11.4 ± 1.3%, respectively. During the anti-scaling tests, the membrane fabricated with this strategy exhibited a minor decline of the water permeance of 33.5% when subjected to the same water recovery process, opposed to 65.8% for the pristine membrane. This proposed fabricating procedure thus provides an effective strategy for retarding membrane scaling in desalination applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100033,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Membranes","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100095"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277282342400006X/pdfft?md5=9652dfc93fbfa8722c5687f2e5c0b83c&pid=1-s2.0-S277282342400006X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140272551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Advanced MembranesPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-09-12DOI: 10.1016/j.advmem.2024.100105
Oranso T. Mahlangu, Samkeliso S. Ndzimandze, Mxolisi M. Motsa, Bhekie B. Mamba
{"title":"Leveraging calcium-NOM complexation phenomenon as RO fouling mitigation strategy during treatment of lake water","authors":"Oranso T. Mahlangu, Samkeliso S. Ndzimandze, Mxolisi M. Motsa, Bhekie B. Mamba","doi":"10.1016/j.advmem.2024.100105","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.advmem.2024.100105","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Organic fouling during reverse osmosis (RO) is exacerbated by the presence of calcium up to a limit where extremely high calcium concentration results in lesser fouling due to formation of large organic-calcium aggregates with lower cake resistance. Therefore, this work leveraged on this phenomenon and used calcium chloride as coagulant (at varying concentration) to reduce membrane fouling while enhancing NOM removal. Membrane cleaning efficiency through calcium-EDTA chelation which disintegrates the fouling layers was explored. RO fouling was performed with sodium alginate solutions and lake water. The fouled membranes were soaked in 0.1 mM EDTA (1 h) and backwashed with water to remove the fouling layer. Alginate fouling was worsened (45–85 %) by increase in calcium concentration up to 5 mM but lessened at > 5 mM calcium concentration (35–15 %). Similar observations were made when filtering lake water, except that lesser fouling was observed at calcium concentrations greater than 15 mM. Membrane soaking in EDTA enhanced cleaning efficiency leading to over 90 % flux recovery for both alginate and late water. However, prolonged membrane exposure to 10 mM calcium resulted in slight decline in membrane salt rejection (<2 % change) and tensile stress (1.3–1.1 N/mm<sup>2</sup>), while the membrane flux increased (<3 % change). Finally, NOM removal improved with calcium addition (up to 90 %) – key in reducing potential formation of disinfection by-products due to addition of disinfection agents. The proposed use of calcium as a common coagulant/chelating agent for fouling mitigation/remediation during advanced membrane filtration has a potential for wider application and commercialization.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100033,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Membranes","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772823424000162/pdfft?md5=6a04c5ed5992132544fc080b3d866964&pid=1-s2.0-S2772823424000162-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142312852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Advanced MembranesPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-02-08DOI: 10.1016/j.advmem.2024.100091
Lijuan Qin , Guanying Dong , Yi Nie , Rawil Fakhrullin , Bing Zhang , Yatao Zhang
{"title":"Progress in design of halloysite nanotubes-polymer nanocomposite membranes and their applications","authors":"Lijuan Qin , Guanying Dong , Yi Nie , Rawil Fakhrullin , Bing Zhang , Yatao Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.advmem.2024.100091","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.advmem.2024.100091","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Driven by the diverse functionalization of halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) and advanced membrane preparation technologies, a tremendous progress in HNTs-polymer nanocomposite membranes has been made during the last dozen years. Yet even with these achievements, an elaborate and comprehensive overview on the rational design of HNTs-polymer nanocomposite membranes, their various application areas as well as the corresponding membrane performance status is still missing. Herein, we provide a timeline of the ongoing research on the advanced HNTs-polymer nanocomposite membranes and then outline the progress on: (1) versatile functionalization methods of the HNTs for the state-of-the-art HNTs-polymer nanocomposite membranes. (2) key routes to prepare and design the HNTs-polymer nanocomposite membranes, and the corresponding influences of the modified HNTs on their membrane structures and performances. (3) the overall inductive performances for specific applications in the areas of water treatment, gas treatment, energy conversion, as well as biomedicine. We envision that an insightful perspective will be timely presented in this review to stimulate the innovation in developing more advanced HNTs-polymer nanocomposite membranes, and then motivating and extending their applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100033,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Membranes","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100091"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772823424000022/pdfft?md5=d03c0ef3d68d660ad0c73111df457da5&pid=1-s2.0-S2772823424000022-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139875227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Advanced MembranesPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-02-03DOI: 10.1016/j.advmem.2024.100090
{"title":"Erratum regarding Declaration of Competing Interest statements in previously published articles","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.advmem.2024.100090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advmem.2024.100090","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100033,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Membranes","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100090"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772823424000010/pdfft?md5=a5c43e68f1d18253fd3adf67ca372cbe&pid=1-s2.0-S2772823424000010-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139674796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Superacid catalyzed triptycene-based polymer to enhance membrane permeability for molecular sieving of nitrogen over VOC","authors":"Yuan Gao , Zhihao Huang , Wenyue Lv , Hua Zhang , Yuanqing Ye , Rongfei Zhou , Huiyun Liao , Haoli Zhou , Wanqin Jin","doi":"10.1016/j.advmem.2024.100099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advmem.2024.100099","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Superacid catalysis, a suitable method for the synthesis of membrane materials owing to its facile polymerization procedure, has been extensively studied. However, superacid-catalyzed binary coplanar polymer membranes generally exhibit low permeabilities. In this study, a rigid 3D triptycene-based polymer was synthesized by the superacid catalysis of triptycene with trifluoroacetophenone and diphenyl ether to enhance membrane permeability for the molecular sieving of nitrogen over volatile organic compound (VOC). The synthesis of polymers with (CF<sub>3</sub>PhET) or without triptycene (CF<sub>3</sub>PhE) was investigated using different characterizations. The triptycene content of the synthesized polymers was optimized based on an analysis of the molecular weight, membrane-forming properties, and separation performance. The separation performances of membranes fabricated using CF<sub>3</sub>PhE, CF<sub>3</sub>PhET, and a mixture of CF<sub>3</sub>PhE and triptycene were compared. Results showed that the introduction of non-coplanar triptycene in the membrane can increase permeability by nearly 60 times due to the enhanced free volume, from 30 Barrer for the CF<sub>3</sub>PhE membrane to 1755 Barrer for the membrane with 5 mol% triptycene content for the separation of a 3 mol% nitrogen/cyclohexane mixture at 1 L/(m<sup>2</sup>·min). Furthermore, the rejection remains constant, which provides an effective idea for the synthesis of membrane materials with high performance using superacid catalysis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100033,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Membranes","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100099"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772823424000101/pdfft?md5=f27d270009ff390352b1352ffcb82e7b&pid=1-s2.0-S2772823424000101-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141249709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Advanced MembranesPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-09-28DOI: 10.1016/j.advmem.2024.100108
Junqi Ning , Cailin Yang , Qiuyu Mei , Limingming Huang , Kai Han
{"title":"One-dimensional Fe/C constructed Janus membrane enables highly-efficient and stable solar-driven interfacial evaporation","authors":"Junqi Ning , Cailin Yang , Qiuyu Mei , Limingming Huang , Kai Han","doi":"10.1016/j.advmem.2024.100108","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.advmem.2024.100108","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The practical use of solar-driven interfacial evaporation is hampered by high cost, low photothermal conversion efficiency, and poor stability. Herein, a one-dimensional Fe/C constructed photothermal membrane is rationally developed to replace precious metals via the combination of Fe plasmon resonance with carbon molecular thermal vibration. The membrane exhibits excellent light absorbance (95.72 %) and water evaporation rate (2.60 kg m<sup>−2</sup> h<sup>−1</sup>) leading to photothermal conversion efficiency up to 95.65 % under 1 sun illumination. Janus Fe/C membrane with superhydrophobic and hydrophilic structure is further prepared by polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) coating to improve long-term stability. The evaporation rate can be maintained at over 90 % after 80 h illumination for real seawater treatment with metal ion removal efficiency >99 %. It also shows high evaporation performance and stability for organic solvents such as IPA, and NMP. Thus, the 1D Fe/C constructed Janus membrane is a promising candidate for energy-saving solar-driven interfacial solvent evaporation including seawater desalination, wastewater treatment, and organic solvent purification.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100033,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Membranes","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142420893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Advanced MembranesPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-05-21DOI: 10.1016/j.advmem.2024.100098
Zheng Liu , Yuxuan Sun , Heguo Han , Qifeng Zhang , Shenghai Li , Suobo Zhang
{"title":"Microporous and functional group Co-designed polyesteramide membranes for efficient and broad-spectrum organic solvent nanofiltration","authors":"Zheng Liu , Yuxuan Sun , Heguo Han , Qifeng Zhang , Shenghai Li , Suobo Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.advmem.2024.100098","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.advmem.2024.100098","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN) is an emerging energy-efficient separations technology, which urgently requires easily processable OSN membranes with high selectivity and broad-spectrum organic solvent applicability to facilitate enhanced industrial applications. Herein, we describe the preparation of microporous polyesteramide (PEA) membranes through interfacial polymerization (IP) between amino-diphenol monomers and trimesoyl chloride (TMC) on a poly(ether ether ketone) (PEEK) support. The crosslinked network structures and large twisted monomers enhance the microporosity of PEA membranes, leading to a significant improvement in solvent permeance while maintaining high selectivity. The optimized PEA membrane demonstrates exceptional permeance for acetone (21.0 L m<sup>−2</sup> h<sup>−1</sup> bar<sup>−1</sup>) and methanol (14.3 L m<sup>−2</sup> h<sup>−1</sup>·bar<sup>−1</sup>), with a molecular weight cut-off of 296 g mol<sup>−1</sup>. Additionally, the PEA/APH-diphenol membrane exhibits ultrafast permeance for the nonpolar solvent toluene (8.3 L m<sup>−2</sup> h<sup>−1</sup>·bar<sup>−1</sup>), owing to the introduction of a large number of ester groups. Overall, PEA membranes prepared through the molecular-level structure design of IP monomers possess enormous industrial application potential owing to their high performance and broad-spectrum applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100033,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Membranes","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100098"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772823424000095/pdfft?md5=f298d991a3f845c9739531883b3acc43&pid=1-s2.0-S2772823424000095-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141134341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}