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Superhydrophobized Polyacrylonitrile/Hierarchicall-FeOOH Nanofibrous Membrane for High-salinity Water Treatment in Membrane Distillation

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Water flux and hydrophobic durability play important roles in membrane distillation(MD) applications. Compared with the method of adsorbing nanoparticles by electrostatic adsorption, the surface roughness constructed by chemical bonding is more conducive to the performance of membrane. This paper reports a facile approach to fabricating superhydrophobic fluoroalkyl silane/polydimethylsiloxane@FeOOH@stabilized polyacrylonitrile(FAS/PDMS@FeOOH@SPAN) nanofibrous membrane(NFM) with outstanding hierarchical structures, aiming to achieve efficient and stable performance in MD. Electrospun polyacrylonitrile(PAN) membrane after peroxidation was chosen as the base membrane, followed by in-situ synthesis of iron oxyhydroxide and liquid-phase silanization. We tested the characteristics of FAS/PDMS@FeOOH@SPAN NFM in each preparation stage and its performance in direct contact membrane distillation(DCMD). The chemical bond between iron oxyhydroxide and the membrane is stronger, making the rough structure steady and dense. The FAS/PDMS@FeOOH@SPAN NFM exhibited a water contact angle of 155.4° and excellent hydrophobicity towards different pollutants. Besides, it showed satisfied properties with a water flux of 24.7 L·m−2·h−1, a high salts rejection of ca. 100% and an extended-term stability in DCMD using hypersaline water(10%, mass ratio). It is believed that this novel study proposes a universal and efficient method to fabricate a superhydrophobic surface and has great potential for high-salinity wastewater treatment in MD.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51873047), the Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment in HIT of China(No.2019DX10) and the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province, China(No.YQ2020B003).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment (SKLUWRE), School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090, China

    Huilin Xiang, Lingling Zhong, Dongmei Liu & Wei Wang

  2. School of Materials Science and Environment, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China

    Ying Xu & Yu Wang

  3. Key Laboratory of New Membrane Materials, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, School of Environment and Biological Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210094, China

    Zhigao Zhu

  4. Daqing Petroleum Equipment Group, Daqing, 163311, China

    Yongqing Ren

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Xiang, H., Zhong, L., Ren, Y. et al. Superhydrophobized Polyacrylonitrile/Hierarchicall-FeOOH Nanofibrous Membrane for High-salinity Water Treatment in Membrane Distillation. Chem. Res. Chin. Univ. 37, 470–479 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40242-021-1039-0

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