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Design and synthesis of polymeric membranes using water-soluble pore formers: an overview

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Membrane technologies have been at the heart of research since last few decades with latest improvement in both fabrication and analytical tools. Porous polymeric membranes have gained much attention in this perspective for their utilization in a variety of fields. This review article is mainly concerned with reporting the research work being conducted so far in the direction of fabricating porous polymer membranes. In this context, various additives used to design porous polymer membranes resulting in well-controlled and broad variety of morphologies are being discussed. However, the emphasis of this review is on the use of various additives mainly different water-soluble pore formers (WSP) in polymeric membranes such as PVP, PEG and PAA. The effect of these WSP on pure water flux, hydrophilicity, fouling, mechanical strength and applications of porous membranes in various fields has also been explained in detail.

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Abbreviations

BFA:

Body-forming agent

BSA:

Bovine serum albumin

HPMA:

N-(2-hydroxypropyl) meth acrylamide

MD:

Membrane distillation

MF:

Microfiltration

NOM:

Natural organic matter

PAA:

Polyacrylic acid

PAM:

Polyacrylamide

PEG:

Poly(ethylene glycol)

PEEK:

Polyetherketone

PEGDA:

Poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate

PEGDME:

Poly(ethylene glycol) dimethyl ether

PES:

Polyether sulfone

PF:

Pore formers

PFA:

Pore-forming agent

PI:

Polyimide

PIM:

Phase inversion method

PP:

Polypropylene

PSf:

Polysulfone

PTFE:

Polytetrafluoroethylene

PVDF:

Poly(vinylidene fluoride)

PVP:

Poly(vinyl pyrrolidone)

RO:

Reverse osmosis

TNF:

Tumor necrosis factor

UF:

Ultrafiltration

WSP:

Water-soluble pore formers

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    Tabassum Malik, Hifza Nawaz, Mohammad Siddiq & Sara Qaisar

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    Humaira Razzaq & Shumaila Razzaque

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Malik, T., Razzaq, H., Razzaque, S. et al. Design and synthesis of polymeric membranes using water-soluble pore formers: an overview. Polym. Bull. 76, 4879–4901 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00289-018-2616-3

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