Carbon nanotube-based nanocomposite desalination membranes from layer-by-layer assembly

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 15, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 76-83

  Park, Junwoo ^a   Choi, Wansuk ^a   Cho, Jinhan ^b   Chun, Byung Hee ^a   Kim, Sung Hyun ^a   Lee, Ki Bong ^a   Bang, Joona ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Kookmin University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Desalination; Multi walled carbon nanotube; Nanocomposite multilayers; Polyelectrolytes

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954224128     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5004/dwt.2010.1670     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. C.Y. Tang, Y.-N. Kwon and J.O. Leckie, Effect of membrane chemistry and coating layer on physiochemical properties of thin film composite polyamide RO and NF membranes: I. FTIR and XPS characterization of polyamide and coating layer chemistry, Desalination, 242 (2009) 149-167.
2. R.J. Petersen, Composite reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membranes, J. Membr. Sci., 83 (1993) 81-150.
3. C.R. Bartels, M. Wilf, K. Andes and J. Iong, Design considerations for wastewater treatment by reverse osmosis, Water. Sci. Technol., 51 (2005) 473-482.
4. K. Taori, V.J. Paul and H. Luesch, Structure and activity of largazole, a potent antiproliferative agent from the Floridian marine cyanobacterium Symploca sp., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130 (2008) 1806-1807.
5. B.-H. Jeong, E.M.V. Hoek, Y. Yan, A. Subramani, X. Huang, G. Hurwitz, A.K. Ghosh and A. Jawor, Interfacial polymerization of thin film nanocomposites: A new concept for reverse osmosis membranes, J. Membr. Sci., 294 (2007) 1-7.
6. L. Lianchao, W. Baoguo, T. Huimin, C. Tianlu and X. Jiping, A novel nanofiltration membrane prepared with PAMAM and TMC by in situ interfacial polymerization on PEK-C ultrafiltration membrane, J. Membr. Sci., 269 (2006) 84-93.
7. M. Zhou, P.R. Nemade, X. Lu, X. Zheng, E.S. Hatakeyama, R.D. Noble and D.L. Gin, New type of membrane material for water desalination based on a cross-linked bicontinuous cubic lyotropic liquid crystal assembly, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129 (2007) 9574-9575.
8. K. Sint, B. Wang and P. Král, Selective ion passage through functionalized graphene nanopores, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130 (2008) 16448-16449.
9. B. Corry, Designing carbon nanotube membranes for efficient water desalination, J. Phys. Chem. B, 112 (2008) 1427-1434.
10. F. Leroux, K. Metenier, S. Gautier, E. Frackowiak, S. Bonnamy and F. Beguin, Electrochemical insertion of lithium in catalytic multi-walled carbon nanotubes, J. Power Sources, 81 (1999) 317-322.
11. M. Sato, A. Noguchi, N. Demachi, N. Oki and M. Endo, A mechanism of lithium storage in disordered carbons, Science, 264 (1994) 556-558.
12. E. Kymakis and G.A.J. Amaratunga, Carbon nanotubes as electron acceptors in polymeric photovoltaics, Rev. Adv. Mater. Sci., 10 (2005) 300-305.
13. P.J. Britto, K.S.V. Santhanam, A. Rubio, A. Alonso and P. M. Ajayan, Improved charge transfer at carbon nanotube electrodes, Adv. Mater., 11 (1999) 154-157.
14. M.M.J. Treacy, T.W. Ebbesen and J.M. Gibson, Exceptionally high Young's modulus observed for individual carbon nanotubes, Nature, 381 (1996) 678-681.
15. A. Cao, D.L. Dickrell, W.G. Sawyer, M.N. Ghasemi-Nejhad and P.M. Ajayan, Super-compressible foamlike carbon nanotube films, Science, 310 (2005) 1307-1310.
16. V.P. Veedu, A. Cao, X. Li, K. Ma, C. Soldano, S. Kar, P.M. Ajayan and M.N. Ghasemi-Nejhad, Multifunctional composites using reinforced laminae with carbon-nanotube forests, Nature Mater., 5 (2006) 457-462.
17. J. Kong, N.R. Franklin, C. Zhou, M.G. Chapline, S. Peng, K. Cho and H. Dai, Nanotube molecular wires as chemical sensors, Science, 287 (2000) 622-625.
18. P.W. Barone, S. Baik, D.A. Heller and M.S. Strano, Near-infrared optical sensors based on single-walled carbon nanotubes, Nature Mater., 4 (2005) 86-92.
19. K. Bradley, J.C.P. Gabriel, A. Star and G. Grüner, Short-channel effects in contact-passivated nanotube chemical sensors, Appl. Phys. Lett., 83 (2003) 3821-3823.
20. D.A. Heller, E.S. Jeng, T.K. Yeung, B.M. Martinez, A.E. Moll, J.B. Gastala and M.S. Strano, Optical detection of DNA conformational polymorphism on single-walled carbon nanotubes, Science, 311 (2006) 508-511.
21. N.W.S. Kam, T.C. Jessop, P.A. Wender and H. Dai, Nanotube molecular transporters: Internalization of carbon nanotubeprotein conjugates into mammalian cells, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126 (2004) 6850-6851.
22. R.J. Chen, Y. Zhang, D. Wang and H. Dai, Noncovalent sidewall functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes for protein immobilization, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 123 (2001) 3838-3839.
23. A.A. Mamedov, N.A. Kotov, M. Prato, D.M. Guldi, J.P. Wicksted and A. Hirsch, Molecular design of strong single-wall carbon nanotube/polyelectrolyte multilayer composites, Nat. Mater., 1 (2002) 190-194.
24. D. Chattopadhyay, I. Galeska and F. Papadimitrakopoulos, A route for bulk separation of semiconducting from metallic single- wall carbon nanotubes, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 123 (2001) 9451-9452.
25. A.B. Artyukhin, O. Bakajin, P. Stroeve and A. Noy, Layer-by- layer electrostatic self-assembly of polyelectrolyte nanoshells on individual carbon nanotube templates, Langmuir, 20 (2004) 1442-1448.
26. J.H. Rouse and P.T. Lillehei, Electrostatic assembly of polymer/ single walled carbon nanotube multilayer films, Nano Lett., 3 (2003) 59-62.
27. S.-C.J. Huang, A.B. Artyukhin, Y. Wang, J.W. Ju, P. Stroeve and A. Noy, Persistence length control of the polyelectrolyte layer- by-layer self-assembly on carbon nanotubes, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127 (2005) 14176-14177.
28. M. Michel, A. Taylor, R. Sekol, P. Podsiadlo, P. Ho, N. Kotov and L. Thompson, High-performance nanostructured membrane electrode, assemblies for fuel cells made by layer-by-layer assembly of carbon nanocolloids, Adv. Mater., 19 (2007) 3859-3864.
29. M. Zhang, Y. Yan, K. Gong, L. Mao, Z. Guo and Y. Chen, Electrostatic layer-by-layer assembled carbon nanotube multilayer film and its electrocatalytic activity for O2 reduction, Langmuir, 20 (2004) 8781-8785.
30. M. Zhang, L. Sua and L. Mao, Surfactant functionalization of nanotubes, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for layer-by-layer assembling of CNT multi-layer films and fabrication of gold nanoparticle/CNT nanohybrid, Carbon, 44 (2006) 276-283.
31. J. Park, J. Park, S.H. Kim, J. Bang and J. Cho, Desalination membranes from pH-controlled and thermally-crosslinked layer-by-layer assembled multilayers, J. Mater. Chem., (2010) doi: 10.1039/B918921A.
32. J. Chen, M.A. Hamon, H. Hu, Y. Chen, A.M. Rao, P.C. Eklund and R.C. Haddon, Solution properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes, Science, 282 (1998) 95-98.
33. S.T. Huxtable, D.G. Cahill, S. Shenogin, L. Xue, R. Ozisik, P. Barone, M. Usrey, M.S. Strano, G. Siddons, M. Shim and P. Keblinski, Interfacial heat flow in carbon nanotube suspensions, Nature Mater., 2 (2003) 731-732.
34. S. Berber, Y.-K. Kwon and D. Tomanek, Unusually high thermal conductivity of carbon nanotubes, Phys. Rev. Lett., 84 (2000) 4614-4616.
35. L.X. Benedict, S.G. Louie and M.L. Cohen, Heat capacity of carbon nanotubes, Solid State Commun., 100 (1996) 177-180.