Fabrication and characterisation of novel nanofiltration polymeric membrane

Autor: Katri Laatikainen, Arnoux Rossouw, Leslie F. Petrik, A. N. Nechaev, Omoniyi Pereao, Iurii Kochnev, Catherine Branger, Andrei Sarbu, Sergey Dobretsov, Chris Ademola Bode-Aluko
Přispěvatelé: Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Laboratoire Matériaux Polymères Interfaces Environnement Marin - EA 4323 (MAPIEM), Université de Toulon (UTLN)
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Materials Today Communications
Materials Today Communications, Elsevier, 2020, 20, pp.100580. ⟨10.1016/j.mtcomm.2019.100580⟩
ISSN: 2352-4928
DOI: 10.1016/j.mtcomm.2019.100580
Popis: A novel composite membrane was obtained by combining the products of ion-tracking and electrospinning processes. Swift heavy ions generated from a cyclotron were used to irradiate polyethylene terephthalate (PET) polymer film of thickness 23 µm to create latent tracks which were then chemically etched in an alkaline solution, to produce track-etched membrane. Magnetron sputtering was then used to deposite titanium (Ti) on the membrane to produce PET-TM with Ti thickness of ˜45 nm. Polyamide 6 nanofibres (PA6-nfs) or polyacrylonitrile nanofibres (PAN-nfs) were directly electrospun upon the Ti coated PET-TM using an electrospinning process. The average fibre diameter of PA6-nfs or PAN-nfs was 52 ± 9.8 nm or 354 ± 40 nm, respectively. The track-etched membrane, the nanofibres and the novel composite membrane were characterised using SEM, TEM, TGA, ATR-FTIR and adsorption/desorption of nitrogen techniques. The results confirmed the fabrication of nanofibre coated track-etched composite membrane.
Databáze: OpenAIRE