Bio-inspired Fabrication of Anti-fouling and Stability of Nanofiltration Membranes with a Poly(dopamine)/Graphene Oxide Interlayer

Tao Wang*, Jin Wang, Zhenzhen Zhao, Xi Zheng, Jiding Li, Helei Liu, Zhiping Zhao

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Abstract

In this present work, a facile approach of fabricating thin-film composite nanofiltration membranes was proposed by introducing a graphene oxide (GO)@poly(dopamine) (PDA) interlayer, which was conducted by dopamine self-polymerization and amino/acyl chloride interfacial polymerization. It could be found that the presence of a GO@PDA interlayer had a significant influence on the polyamide formation including polyamide topography, thickness, hydrophilicity, and separation performance. Under the optimum conditions, the designed membrane exhibited a pure water flux of 11.4 L·m-2·h-1·bar-1 (0.8 MPa, 25 °C) and high salt rejections of different salts with the order Na2SO4 (98.22%) > MgSO4 (97.76%) > MgCl2 (84.05%) > NaCl (66.99%). In addition, the modified membrane displayed excellent anti-fouling property and structural stability. As a summary of the finding in this work, it is expected to contribute a strategy on the fabrication of nanofiltration membrane with good performance, which will exhibit a high potential of industrial application.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)14868-14883
Number of pages16
JournalIndustrial and Engineering Chemistry Research
Volume60
Issue number41
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Oct 2021

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