聚砜
材料科学
共聚物
甲基丙烯酸甲酯
原子转移自由基聚合
高分子化学
膜
化学工程
甲基丙烯酸酯
相位反转
聚甲基丙烯酸甲酯
自由基聚合
聚合物
复合材料
化学
生物化学
工程类
作者
Alireza Farazin,Alireza Shakeri,Hossein Mahdavi
出处
期刊:ACS applied polymer materials
[American Chemical Society]
日期:2023-10-19
卷期号:5 (11): 8869-8879
被引量:2
标识
DOI:10.1021/acsapm.3c01248
摘要
In this work, poly(methyl methacrylate)-block-polysulfone-poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA-b-PSf-b-PMMA) as an amphiphilic block copolymer, which is appropriate for support layer modification of forward osmosis (FO) membranes, was prepared via an atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) method using a bromo-terminated PSf as a macroinitiator. First, the Br-terminated PSf macroinitiator was synthesized by esterification of the phenolic groups with α-halo-ester. Second, the PSf-Br macroinitiator was used to start the ATRP process of the MMA monomer, resulting in a PMMA-b-PSf-b-PMMA block copolymer. This block copolymer was combined with PSf during the phase inversion process. Using the PMMA-b-PSf-b-PMMA-modified support layers, we constructed thin film composite (TFC) membranes by interfacial polymerization. The effect of the PMMA-b-PSf-b-PMMA block copolymer content on the porosity, morphology, hydrophilicity, and polyamide layer (PA) properties was carefully studied using several characterizations. The results showed that the support layer characteristics including porosity, hydrophilicity, and pure water flux were considerably improved after PMMA-b-PSf-b-PMMA incorporation. In addition, the best performing TFC20 (modified with 20 wt % PMMA-b-PSf-b-PMMA) membrane exhibits a satisfactory FO performance: a high water flux of 34.09/17.52 LMH (pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO)/FO configuration) and a minimum specific reverse salt flux of 0.09/0.1 g/L (PRO/FO configuration) using DI water as the feed solution and 1 M NaCl as the draw solution. Furthermore, the water permeability was significantly improved with an optimal addition of the PMMA-b-PSf-b-PMMA block copolymer, which should be related to an increase in the PA layer roughness. Meanwhile, the structural parameter (S) value severely declined to 625.2 μm for TFC20 from 1925.6 μm for the control TFC. Therefore, the modification of the PSf substrate with the PMMA-b-PSf-b-PMMA copolymer is an effective method to alleviate the internal concentration polarization during the FO process.
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