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Title: | Environmentally friendly approach for the fabrication of polyamide thin film nanocomposite membrane with enhanced antifouling and antibacterial properties | Authors: | Khoo, Ying Siew Seah, Mei Qun Lau, Woei Jye Liang, Yong Yeow Karaman, Mustafa Gürsoy, Mehmet Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi |
Keywords: | Thin Film Nanocomposite Nanotechnology Titania Nanotubes Plasma Modification Desalination Reverse-Osmosis Membrane Carbon Nanotubes Tfn Membranes Nanoparticles Desalination Surface Flux Performance Chemistry Ro |
Publisher: | ELSEVIER | Abstract: | In this work, we employed an environmentally friendly approach based on plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) to modify titania nanotubes (TNTs), aiming to obtain better dispersion of nanofillers in polyamide (PA) layer of thin film nanocomposite (TFN) reverse osmosis membrane. Owing to the hydrophilic nature of TNTs, dispersing it homogenously in organic solvent during interfacial polymerization process is difficult to achieve. Therefore, the TNTs are mildly modified by PECVD technique in order to ameliorate its stability in organic solvent. Our results showed that depositing thin layer of methyl methacrylate (MMA) on the TNTs surface could enhance its dispersion quality in organic solvent and further improve the properties of PA layer by enhancing membrane water flux by 16% without compromising NaCl rejection. More importantly, the developed TFN membrane showed excellent fouling resistance by recording flux recovery rate of 85.77% compared to 57.94% shown by the control membrane. Its antibacterial property was also obviously better than that of control membrane. Overall, the developed TFN membrane demonstrated good performance stability with respect to NaCl rejection and water permeability and the trace amount of nanofillers detected in the water sample (in the level of mu g/L) did not negatively influence the membrane filtration performance. | URI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2020.118249 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13091/851 |
ISSN: | 1383-5866 1873-3794 |
Appears in Collections: | Mühendislik ve Doğa Bilimleri Fakültesi Koleksiyonu Scopus İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / Scopus Indexed Publications Collections WoS İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / WoS Indexed Publications Collections |
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