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Polystyrene Sulfonate Particles as Building Blocks for Nanofiltration Membranes.
| Content Provider | Europe PMC |
|---|---|
| Author | Jahn, Philipp Zelner, Michael Freger, Viatcheslav Ulbricht, Mathias |
| Editor | Lin, Hongjun Zhang, Meijia |
| Copyright Year | 2022 |
| Abstract | Today the standard treatment for wastewater is secondary treatment. This procedure cannot remove salinity or some organic micropollutants from water. In the future, a tertiary cleaning step may be required. An attractive solution is membrane processes, especially nanofiltration (NF). However, currently available NF membranes strongly reject multivalent ions, mainly due to the dielectric effect. In this work, we present a new method for preparing NF membranes, which contain negatively and positively charged domains, obtained by the combination of two polyelectrolytes with opposite charge. The negatively charged polyelectrolyte is provided in the form of particles (polystyrene sulfonate (PSSA), d ~300 nm). As a positively charged polyelectrolyte, polyethyleneimine (PEI) is used. Both buildings blocks and glycerol diglycidyl ether as crosslinker for PEI are applied to an UF membrane support in a simple one-step coating process. The membrane charge (zeta potential) and salt rejection can be adjusted using the particle concentration in the coating solution/dispersion that determine the selective layer composition. The approach reported here leads to NF membranes with a selectivity that may be controlled by a different mechanism compared to state-of-the-art membranes. |
| Volume Number | 12 |
| PubMed Central reference number | PMC9697654 |
| Issue Number | 11 |
| PubMed reference number | 36422130 |
| Journal | Membranes (Basel) |
| e-ISSN | 20770375 |
| DOI | 10.3390/membranes12111138 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2022-11-12 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). © 2022 by the authors. |
| Subject Keyword | nanofiltration polyelectrolyte complex membrane polystyrene sulfonate particles charged mosaic membranes |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Chemical Engineering Process Chemistry and Technology Filtration and Separation |