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Surface engineering of polymeric membranes with metal oxides for improved fouling resistance and superior oil-water separation
Rapid industrial growth has increased the need for efficient membranes to separate oil-water emulsions. Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membranes, although widely used due to their chemical inertness and favorable mechanical properties, suffer from fouling due to their intrinsic hydrophobicity. Modifying these membranes after fabrication offers a practical solution as it easily fits into existing large-scale manufacturing processes. Atomic layer deposition (ALD), an atomically-precise vapor phase surface modification technique, can create ultrathin metal oxide layers that greatly improve membrane hydrophilicity without significantly affecting the original pore size. However, PVDF's lack of reactive chemical moieties makes ALD challenging. Here, in this study, we present a simple alkali treatment that greatly enhances ALD nucleation and growth on PVDF membranes. This treatment imparts exceptional oil-water emulsion separation capabilities and antifouling behavior in PVDF membranes after just a few ALD cycles, surpassing the performance of PVDF membranes coated with hundreds of ALD cycles. This dramatic reduction in the number of ALD cycles required could enable cost-effective modification of commercial PVDF membranes at scale using spatial, roll-to-roll ALD. These modified membranes outperform reported modified PVDF membranes, with >99 % permeance recovery and <1 % irreversible loss of permeance and >98 % oil rejection from oil-water emulsions over 100 h continuous operation, making them promising for advanced water purification technologies.
Water‐Induced Modulation of Bipolaron Formation in N-type Polymeric Mixed Conductors
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Rational molecular design of polymeric materials toward efficient triboelectric energy harvesting
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Dose rate effects in radiation-induced changes to phenyl-based polymeric scintillators
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Additive manufacturing of SiCNO polymer-derived ceramics via step-growth polymerization
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Amidoximes as ligand functionalities for braided polymeric materials for the recovery of uranium from seawater
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Influence of Solvent Size on the Mechanical Properties and Rheology of Polydimethylsiloxane-Based Polymeric Gels.
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Energy-efficient polymeric gas separation membranes for a sustainable future: A review
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Porous polymers prepared via high internal phase emulsion polymerization for reversible CO2 capture
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On the synthesis and structure of resorcinol-formaldehyde polymeric networks – Precursors to 3D-carbon macroassemblies
With the new impetus towards the development of hierarchical graphene and CNT macro-assemblies for application in fields such as advanced energy storage, catalysis and electronics; there is much renewed interest in organic carbon-based sol–gel processes as a synthetically convenient and versatile means of forming three dimensional, covalently bonded organic/inorganic networks. Such matrices can act as highly effective precursors, scaffolds or molecular ‘glues’ for the assembly of a wide variety of functional carbon macro-assemblies. However, despite the utility and broad use of organic sol–gel processes – such as the ubiquitous resorcinol-formaldehyde (RF) reaction, there are details of the reaction chemistries of these important sol–gel processes that remain poorly understood at present. It is therefore both timely and necessary to examine these reactions in more detail using modern analytical techniques in order to gain a more rigorous understanding of the mechanisms by which these organic networks form. The goal of such studies is to obtain improved and rational control over the organic network structure, in order to better direct and tailor the architecture of the final inorganic carbon matrix. In this study we have investigated in detail, the mechanism of the organic sol–gel network forming reaction of resorcinol and formaldehyde from a structural and kinetic standpoint, by using a combination of real-time high field solution state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), low field NMR relaxometry and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). These investigations have allowed us to track the network formation processes in real-time, gain both detailed structural information on the mechanisms of the RF sol–gel process and a quantitative assessment of the kinetics of the global network formation process. Here, it has been shown that the mechanism, by which the RF organic network forms, proceeds via an initial exothermic step correlated to the formation of a free aromatic aldehyde. The network growth reaction then proceeds in a statistical manner following a first order Arrhenius type kinetic relationship – characteristic of a typical thermoset network poly-condensation process. Finally, despite the relative complexity and ill-defined nature of the formaldehyde staring material, the final network structure is to a large extent, governed by the substitution pattern of the resorcinol molecule.
Polymerized ionic liquid diblock copolymer as solid-state electrolyte and separator in lithium-ion battery
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