Carbon Dots Incorporated Polysulfone Nanocomposite Membranes with High Water Fux and Fouling Resistance

doi:10.11901/1005.3093.2020.058

Chinese Journal of Materials Research

2020, Vol. 34

Issue (10): 761-769 DOI: 10.11901/1005.3093.2020.058

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Carbon Dots Incorporated Polysulfone Nanocomposite Membranes with High Water Fux and Fouling Resistance

CHEN Bin¹, ZHANG Jialu¹, ZHANG Yan¹, ZHAO Haichao², ZHU Lijing²(

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1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang 110142, China
2. Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Related Technologies, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Protective Technologies, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China

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CHEN Bin, ZHANG Jialu, ZHANG Yan, ZHAO Haichao, ZHU Lijing. Carbon Dots Incorporated Polysulfone Nanocomposite Membranes with High Water Fux and Fouling Resistance. Chinese Journal of Materials Research, 2020, 34(10): 761-769.

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Carbon dots (CDs) were synthesized from 4-aminosalicylic acid (ASA) by a hydrothermal carbonization technique and then incorporated into the membrane casting solution. Then polysulfone/carbon dots (PSF/CDs) nanocomposite membranes were prepared by non-solvent induced phase separation. The results of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) show that CDs with a lot of hydrophilic groups had been successfully synthesized. Water contact angle analysis (WCA), scanning probe microscope (SPM) and scanning electron microscope (SEM) were used to characterize all membranes. It could be found that nanocomposite membranes have better hydrophilicity and water flux than the original membrane. Therefore, the anti-fouling performance of the modified membranes had also been improved. Flux recovery rate (FRR) of the fabricated PSF/CDs membrane is higher than 90%, total fouling ratio (Rt) is less than 60%, and the reversible fouling played a dominant role during the fouling process. When the CDs content (mass fraction) is 2%, the overall effect of the membrane is the best with comprehensive performances such as separation efficiency, separation effect, and antifouling ability etc. The water flux of the nanocomposite membranes with stronger anti-fouling ability is even 3 times that of the plain PSF membrane.

Key words: organic polymer materials polysulfone carbon quantum dots nanocomposite membrane fouling resistance hydrophilicity

Received: 24 February 2020

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Fund: National Natural Science Foundation of China(51603214);Ningbo Science and Technology Bureau(2018A610110);“One Hundred Talented People”of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Y60707WR04)

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Fig.1 Schematic diagram of the preparation processes of CDs (a) and the particle motion during the NIPs (b)

Fig.2 TEM image of CDs and the photo pictures of the CDs solution in ethanol and the fluorescence image in 365 nm ultraviolet irradiation (a), FTIR spectra typical (b), particle size distribution of CDs (c) and typical XPS wide scans of ASA and CDs (d)

Table 1 Atomic concentration of ASA and CDs

Fig.3 XPS high resolution survey scans of (a, b) C 1s, and (c, d) O 1s regions of ASA and CDs

Fig.4 Micro-FTIR spectra (a) and typical XPS wide scans of M0, M0.5, M5 (b) and images of different membranes (c)

Table 2 Atomic concentration of different membranes

Fig.5 SEM images of the membranes (a) M0, (b) M0.5, (c) M1, (d) M2, (e) M3 and (f) M5

Table 3 Pore diameter and the porosity of the fabricated membranes

Fig.6 SPM images of the membranes (a) M0, (b) M0.5, (c) M1, (d) M2, (e) M3 and (f) M5

Fig.7 Cross-section SEM images of M0 (a), M1 (b), M2 (c) and M5 (d)

Fig.8 Water contact angles of the different membranes

Fig.9 The fluxes of F_W1, F_BSA, F_W2 (a), BSA rejection and FRR of the fabricated membranes (b), total fouling ratio (R_t), reversible fouling ratios (Rr) and irreversible fouling ratios (Rir) (c), the percentage of reversible (Rr/Rt) and irreversible fouling (Rir/Rt) in total fouling of the di?erent membranes (d)

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