Poly(ionic liquid)-Armored MXene Membrane: Interlayer Engineering for Facilitated Water Transport

Autor: Ming Yi, Mi Wang, Yan Wang, Yanlei Wang, Jian Chang, Atefeh Khorsand Kheirabad, Hongyan He, Jiayin Yuan, Miao Zhang
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English). 61(27)
ISSN: 1521-3773
Popis: Two-dimensional (2D) MXene-based lamellar membranes bearing interlayers of tunable hydrophilicity are promising for high-performance water purification. The current challenge lies in how to engineer the pore wall's surface properties in the subnano-confinement environment while ensuring its high selectivity. Herein, poly(ionic liquid)s, equipped with readily exchangeable counter anions, succeeded as a hydrophilicity modifier in addressing this issue. Lamellar membranes bearing nanochannels of tailorable hydrophilicity are constructed via assembly of poly(ionic liquid)-armored MXene nanosheets. By shifting the interlayer galleries from being hydrophilic to more hydrophobic via simple anion exchange, the MXene membrane performs drastically better for both the permeance (by two-fold improvement) and rejection (≈99 %). This facile method opens up a new avenue for building 2D material-based membranes of enhancing molecular transport and sieving effect.
Databáze: OpenAIRE