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Bio-inspired antifouling Cellulose nanofiber multifunctional filtration membrane for highly efficient emulsion separation and application in water purification

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Membrane fouling is usually a troublesome issue in oily water treatment, especially containing complex crude oil emulsions. Although most of the reported membranes are in a position to repel models oils, it’s still a big challenge of repelling crude oil. Besides, the fabrication processes of those membranes are too complicated, high-cost and environmentally unfriendly. Hence, in this work, a facile and green method was designed to fabricate a Cellulose nanofiber (CNF) polyelectrolyte filtration membrane with excellent underwater superoleophobic characteristic and outstanding antifouling performance. The membrane not only can separate oil/water emulsions with a high separation efficiency (>99%) and water flux (>11,000 L m−2 h−1), but also remove positively charged dyes with good permeation fluxes (>10,000L m−2 h−1) and rejection radio (>98%). Herein, it can be anticipated that this method has excellent potential for designing and preparing the specific membranes for multifunctional applications in water treatment.

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Acknowledgements

We are very grateful to the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51774245), Applied Basic Research Program of Science and Technology Department of Sichuan Province (No. 2018JY0517) for their financial support for this study.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Oil & Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610500, P. R. China

    Xiangying Yin, Yi He, Yuqi Wang, Hao Yu & Yixuan Gao

  2. College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610500, P. R. China

    Xiangying Yin, Yi He, Yuqi Wang, Hao Yu & Yixuan Gao

  3. Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC, 3220, Australia

    Jingyu Chen

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Yin, X., He, Y., Wang, Y. et al. Bio-inspired antifouling Cellulose nanofiber multifunctional filtration membrane for highly efficient emulsion separation and application in water purification. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 37, 1751–1760 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-020-0568-4

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