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Structurally ordered nanofiltration membranes prepared by spatially anchoring interfacial polymerization for highly efficient separation properties

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The incorporation of various nanofillers into the interfacial polymerization (IP) process is widely applied to prepare higher performance NF membranes. However, few studies have reported the influence of nanofillers on nanocomposite membrane formation in the IP process. Here, an optical microscope was employed to study the change rule in the 8-NH2-POSS/PSA nanocomposite membrane formation process due to the addition of 8-NH2-POSS nanoparticles. First, the addition of 8-NH2-POSS reduced the diffusion rate of the polyacrylamide hydrochloride (PAH) water phase on the surface against the oil phase because of the interaction with the PAH molecules. Furthermore, the 8-NH2-POSS/PSA nanocomposite membrane structure was more homogeneous and exhibited uniform pinhole defects distribution due to the interaction of the 8-NH2-POSS nanoparticles to the PAH segment. A significant separation performance was observed in the 8-NH2-POSS/PSA nanocomposite membrane due to the hydrophilicity and positive charge of the 8-NH2-POSS nanoparticles. The permeation flux and MgCl2 rejection of the 8-NH2-POSS/PSA nanocomposite membrane increased up to 50.5 L/m2 h at 0.5 MPa and 94.8%, respectively, which corresponded to increases of 73.5% and 8.7% as compared to the pristine PSA membrane. 8-NH2-POSS/PSA nanocomposite membranes have great application potential in the water softening and treatment of divalent metals ions under acidic conditions.

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The financial support for this work is from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21464012), the funds for dual first-class discipline of Shihezi university (SHYL-YB201806), the funds for innovation and development of Shihezi university (CXFZ201909), the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (No. IRT_15R46) and Bingtuan Innovation Team in Key Areas (2015BD003).

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  1. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shihezi University, Shihezi, 832003, China

    Ao Sheng, Hao Wang, Haoji Jiang, Yaxin Zhao, Hao Li, Hao Jia, Zhong Wei & Heyun Wang

  2. Key Laboratory for Green Processing of Chemical Engineering of Xinjiang Bingtuan, Shihezi, 832003, China

    Zhong Wei & Heyun Wang

  3. Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Xinjiang, China

    Zhong Wei & Heyun Wang

  4. Engineering Research Center of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering of Xinjiang Bingtuan, Xinjiang, China

    Zhong Wei & Heyun Wang

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Sheng, A., Wang, H., Jiang, H. et al. Structurally ordered nanofiltration membranes prepared by spatially anchoring interfacial polymerization for highly efficient separation properties. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 38, 1956–1969 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-021-0837-x

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