A scalable method toward superhydrophilic and underwater superoleophobic PVDF membranes for effective oil/water emulsion separation

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 27, 2015, Pages 14896-14904

  Yuan, Tao ^a   Meng, Jianqiang ^a   Hao, Tingyu ^a   Wang, Zihong ^a   Zhang, Yufeng ^a  

^a TIANJIN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

oil water separation; PVDF membrane; superhydrophilic; surface modification; underwater superoleophobic

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; CRUDE OIL; EMULSIFICATION; EMULSIONS; GLYCOLS; HYDROGELS; HYDROPHILICITY; MATERIALS HANDLING; POLYPROPYLENES; SCALABILITY; SEPARATION; SURFACE TREATMENT;

ANTIFOULING PERFORMANCE; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY; INTERFACIAL POLYMERIZATION; OIL/WATER SEPARATION; PENTAERYTHRITOL TETRAKIS (3MERCAPTOPROPIONATE); PVDF MEMBRANE; SUPER-HYDROPHILIC; UNDERWATER SUPEROLEOPHOBIC;

MEMBRANES;

EID: 84937118918     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b03625     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Zhu, Y. Z.; Wang, D.; Jiang, L.; Jin, J. Recent Progress in Developing Advanced Membranes for Emulsified Oil/Water Separation NPG Asia Mater. 2014, 6, e101 10.1038/am.2014.23
2. Sagle, A. C.; Ju, H.; Freeman, B. D.; Sharma, M. M. PEG-Based Hydrogel Membrane Coatings Polymer 2009, 50, 756-766 10.1016/j.polymer.2008.12.019
3. Liu, N.; Cao, Y. Z.; Lin, X.; Chen, Y. N.; Feng, L.; Wei, Y. A Facile Solvent-Manipulated Mesh for Reversible Oil/Water Separation ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2014, 6, 12821-12826 10.1021/am502809h
4. OTM Consulting & Douglas-Westwood. World Onshore Produced Water Gamechanger Market Report 2012-2020; Douglas-Westwood: Houston, TX.
5. Cheryan, M.; Rajagopalan, N. Membrane Processing of Oily Streams. Wastewater Treatment and waste reduction J. Membr. Sci. 1998, 151, 13-28 10.1016/S0376-7388(98)00190-2
6. Križan Milić, J.; Muric, A.; Petrinic, I.; Simonic, M. Recent Developments in Membrane Treatment of Spent Cutting-Oils: A Review Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2013, 52, 7603-7616 10.1021/ie4003552
7. Zhang, W. B.; Zhu, Y. Z.; Liu, X.; Wang, D.; Li, J. Y.; Jiang, L.; Jin, J. Salt-Induced Fabrication of Superhydrophilic and Underwater Superoleophobic PAA-g-PVDF Membranes for Effective Separation of Oil-in-Water Emulsions Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 856-860 10.1002/anie.201308183
8. Kasemset, S.; Lee, A.; Miller, D. J.; Freeman, B. D.; Sharma, M. M. Effect of Polydopamine Deposition Conditions on Fouling Resistance, Physical Properties, and Permeation Properties of Reverse Osmosis Membranes in Oil/Water Separation J. Membr. Sci. 2013, 425-426, 208-216 10.1016/j.memsci.2012.08.049
9. Kim, D. G.; Kang, H.; Han, S.; Lee, J. C. Dual Effective Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Star-Shaped Polymer Coatings on Ultrafiltration Membrane for Bio- and Oil-Fouling Resistance ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2012, 4, 5898-5906 10.1021/am301538h
10. Xue, Z. X.; Jiang, L. Bioinspired Underwater Superoleophobic Surfaces Acta Polym. Sin. 2012, 10, 1091-1101 10.3724/SP.J.1105.2012.12101
11. Zhang, J. P.; Seeger, S. Polyester Materials with Superwetting Silicone Nanofilaments for Oil/Water Separation and Selective Oil Absorption Adv. Funct. Mater. 2011, 21, 4699-4704 10.1002/adfm.201101090
12. Yoon, H.; Na, S. H.; Choi, J. Y.; Latthe, S. S.; Swihart, M. T.; Al-Deyab, S. S.; Yoon, S. S. Gravity-Driven Hybrid Membrane for Oleophobic-Superhydrophilic Oil Water Separation and Water Purification by Graphene Langmuir 2014, 30, 11761-11769 10.1021/la5031526
13. Gao, S. J.; Shi, Z.; Zhang, W. B.; Zhang, F.; Jin, J. Photoinduced Superwetting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube/TiO2 Ultrathin Network Films for Ultrafast Separation of Oil-in-Water Emulsions ACS Nano 2014, 8, 6344-6352 10.1021/nn501851a
14. Feng, L.; Zhang, Z. Y.; Mai, Z. H.; Ma, Y. M.; Liu, B. Q.; Jiang, L.; Zhu, D. B. A Super-Hydrophobic and Super-Oleophilic Coating Mesh Film for the Separation of Oil and Water Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2004, 43, 2012-2014 10.1002/anie.200353381
15. Cheng, Z. J.; Wang, J. W.; Lai, H.; Du, Y.; Hou, R.; Li, C.; Zhang, N. Q.; Sun, K. N. pH-Controllable On-Demand Oil/Water Separation on the Switchable Superhydrophobic/Superhydrophilic and Underwater Low-Adhesive Superoleophobic Copper Mesh Film Langmuir 2015, 31, 1393-1399 10.1021/la503676a
16. Cheng, Z. J.; Lai, H.; Du, Y.; Fu, K. W.; Hou, R.; Li, C.; Zhang, N. Q.; Sun, K. N. pH-Induced Reversible Wetting Transition between the Underwater Superoleophilicity and Superoleophobicity ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2014, 6, 636-641 10.1021/am4047393
17. Kota, A. K.; Kwon, G.; Choi, W.; Mabry, J. M.; Tuteja, A. Hygro-Responsive Membranes for Effective Oil-Water Separation Nat. Commun. 2012, 3, 1025-1032 10.1038/ncomms2027
18. Gondal, M. A.; Sadullah, M. S.; Dastageer, M. A.; McKinley, G. H.; Panchanathan, D.; Varanasi, K. K. Study of Factors Governing Oil-Water Separation Process Using TiO2 Films Prepared by Spray Deposition of Nanoparticle Dispersions ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2014, 6, 13422-13429 10.1021/am501867b
19. Tai, M. H.; Gao, P.; Tan, B. Y. L.; Sun, D. D.; Leckie, J. O. Highly Efficient and Flexible Electrospun Carbon-Silica Nanofibrous Membrane for Ultrafast Gravity-Driven Oil-Water Separation ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2014, 6, 9393-9401 10.1021/am501758c
20. Mota, M.; Teixeira, J. A.; Yelshin, A. Influence of Cell-Shape on the Cake Resistance in Dead-End and Cross-Flow Filtrations Sep. Purif. Technol. 2002, 27, 137-144 10.1016/S1383-5866(01)00202-7
21. Becht, N. O.; Malik, D. J.; Tarleton, E. S. Evaluation and Comparison of Protein Ultrafiltration Test Results: Dead-End Stirred Cell Compared with a Cross-Flow System Sep. Purif. Technol. 2008, 62, 228-239 10.1016/j.seppur.2008.01.030
22. Miller, D. J.; Kasemset, S.; Paul, D. R.; Freeman, B. D. Comparison of Membrane Fouling at Constant Flux and Constant Transmembrane Pressure Conditions J. Membr. Sci. 2014, 454, 505-515 10.1016/j.memsci.2013.12.027
23. Miller, D. J.; Kasemset, S.; Wang, L.; Paul, D. R.; Freeman, B. D. Constant Flux Crossflow Filtration Evaluation of Surface-modified Fouling-Resistant Membranes J. Membr. Sci. 2014, 452, 171-183 10.1016/j.memsci.2013.10.037
24. Asatekin, A.; Mayes, A. Oil Industry Wastewater Treatment with Fouling Resistant Membranes Containing Amphiphilic Comb Copolymers Environ. Sci. Technol. 2009, 43, 4487-4492 10.1021/es803677k
25. Zhao, Y. F.; Zhu, L. P.; Yi, Z.; Zhu, B. K.; Xu, Y. Y. Improving the Hydrophilicity and Fouling-Resistance of Polysulfone Ultrafiltration Membranes via Surface Zwitterionicalization Mediated by Polysulfone-Based Triblock Copolymer Additive J. Membr. Sci. 2013, 440, 40-47 10.1016/j.memsci.2013.03.064
26. Wandera, D.; Himstedt, H. H.; Marroquin, M.; Wickramasinghe, S. R.; Husson, S. M. Modification of Ultrafiltration Membranes with Block Copolymer Nanolayers for Produced Water Treatment: The Roles of Polymer Chain Density and Polymerization Time on Performance J. Membr. Sci. 2012, 403-404, 250-260 10.1016/j.memsci.2012.02.061
27. Chen, W. J.; Su, Y. L.; Zheng, L. L.; Wang, L. J.; Jiang, Z. Y. The Improved Oil/Water Separation Performance of Cellulose Acetate-Graft-Polyacrylonitrile Membranes J. Membr. Sci. 2009, 337, 98-105 10.1016/j.memsci.2009.03.029
28. Jing, B. X.; Wang, H. T.; Lin, K. Y.; McGinn, P. J.; Na, C. Z.; Zhu, Y. X. A Facile Method to Functionalize Engineering Solid Membrane Supports for Rapid and Efficient Oil-Water Separation Polymer 2013, 54, 5771-5778 10.1016/j.polymer.2013.08.030
29. Ju, H.; McCloskey, B. D.; Sagle, A. C.; Wu, Y. H.; Kusuma, V. A.; Freeman, B. D. Crosslinked Poly(ethylene oxide) Fouling Resistant Coating Materials for Oil/Water Separation J. Membr. Sci. 2008, 307, 260-267 10.1016/j.memsci.2007.09.028
30. Jiang, J. H.; Zhu, L. P.; Zhu, L. J.; Zhang, H. T.; Zhu, B. K.; Xu, Y. Y. Antifouling and Antimicrobial Polymer Membranes based on Bioinspired Polydopamine and Strong Hydrogen-bonded Poly(N-vinyl pyrrolidone) ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2013, 5, 12895-12904 10.1021/am403405c
31. Ejaz Ahmed, F.; Lalia, B. S.; Hilal, N.; Hashaikeh, R. Underwater Superoleophobic Cellulose/Electrospun PVDF-HFP Membranes for Efficient Oil/Water Separation Desalination 2014, 344, 48-54 10.1016/j.desal.2014.03.010
32. Mazurek, P.; Daugaard, A. E.; Skolimowski, M.; Hvilsted, S.; Skov, A. L. Preparing Mono-Dispersed Liquid Core PDMS Microcapsules from Thiol-Ene-Epoxy-Tailored Tlow-focusing Microfluidic Devices RSC Adv. 2015, 5, 15379-15386 10.1039/C4RA16255B
33. Cengiz, N.; Rao, J. Y.; Sanyal, A.; Khan, A. Designing Functionalizable Hydrogels Through Thiol-Epoxy Coupling Chemistry Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 11191-11193 10.1039/c3cc45859h
34. De, S.; Khan, A. Efficient Synthesis of Multifunctional Polymers via Thiol-Epoxy 'Click' Chemistry Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 3130-3132 10.1039/c2cc30434a
35. Drelich, J.; Chibowski, E. Superhydrophilic and Superwetting Surfaces: Definition and Mechanisms of Control Langmuir 2010, 26, 18621-18623 10.1021/la1039893
36. Shirtcliffe, N. J.; McHale, G.; Atherton, S.; Newton, M. I. An Introduction to Superhydrophobicity Adv. Colloid Interface Sci. 2010, 161, 124-138 10.1016/j.cis.2009.11.001
37. Jung, Y. C.; Bhushan, B. Wetting Behavior of Water and Oil Droplets in Three-Phase Interfaces for Hydrophobicity/philicity and Oleophobicity/philicity Langmuir 2009, 25, 14165-14173 10.1021/la901906h
38. Jin, M. H.; Wang, J.; Yao, X.; Liao, M. Y.; Zhao, Y.; Jiang, L. Underwater Oil Capture by a Three-Dimensional Network Architectured Organosilane Surface Adv. Mater. 2011, 23, 2861-2864 10.1002/adma.201101048
39. Liu, M. J.; Wang, S. T.; Wei, Z. X.; Song, Y. L.; Jiang, L. Bioinspired Design of a Superoleophobic and Low Adhesive Water/Solid Interface Adv. Mater. 2009, 21, 665-669 10.1002/adma.200801782
40. Brewis, D. M.; Mathieson, I.; Sutherland, I. Pretreatment of Poly(vinyl fluoride) and Poly(vinylidene fluoride) with Potassium Hydroxide Int. J. Adhes. Adhes. 1996, 16, 87-95 10.1016/0143-7496(95)00053-4
41. Ross, G. J.; Watts, J. F.; Hill, M. P.; Morrissey, P. Surface Modification of Poly(vinylidene fluoride) by Alkaline Treatment 1. The Degradation Mechanism Polymer 2000, 41, 1685-1696 10.1016/S0032-3861(99)00343-2
42. Guo, H. F.; Ulbricht, M. Surface Modification of Polypropylene Microfiltration Membrane via Entrapment of an Amphiphilic Alkyl Oligoethyleneglycolether J. Membr. Sci. 2010, 349, 312-320 10.1016/j.memsci.2009.11.062
43. Chinpa, W.; Quemener, D.; Beche, E.; Jiraratananon, R.; Deratani, A. Preparation of Poly(etherimide) Based Ultrafiltration Membrane with Low Fouling Property by Surface Modification with Poly(ethylene glycol) J. Membr. Sci. 2010, 365, 89-97 10.1016/j.memsci.2010.08.040
44. Chang, Y.; Ko, C. Y.; Shih, Y. J.; Quemener, D.; Deratani, A.; Wei, T. C.; Wang, D. M.; Lai, J. Y. Surface Grafting Control of PEGylated Poly(vinylidene fluoride) Antifouling Membrane via Surface-initiated Radical Graft Copolymerization J. Membr. Sci. 2009, 345, 160-169 10.1016/j.memsci.2009.08.039
45. Lei, J.; Ulbricht, M. Macroinitiator-mediated Photoreactive Coating of Membrane Surfaces with Antifouling Hydrogel Layers J. Membr. Sci. 2014, 455, 207-218 10.1016/j.memsci.2013.12.059
46. Yuan, T.; Meng, J. Q.; Hao, T. Y.; Zhang, Y. F.; Xu, M. L. Polysulfone Membranes Clicked with Poly (ethylene glycol) of High Density and Uniformity for Oil/water Emulsion Purification: Effects of Tethered Hydrogel Microstructure J. Membr. Sci. 2014, 470, 112-124 10.1016/j.memsci.2014.07.013