• 文献标题:   Improvement of heavy metal separation performance by positively charged small-sized graphene oxide membrane
  • 文献类型:   Article, Early Access
  • 作  者:   ZHENG B, JIA SC, TIAN YM
  • 作者关键词:   graphene oxide, nanofiltration, ethylenediamine, polyethyleneimine, heavy metal
  • 出版物名称:   ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
  • ISSN:   0959-3330 EI 1479-487X
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  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1080/09593330.2023.2176262 EA FEB 2023
  • 出版年:   2023

▎ 摘  要

Multilayered graphene oxide (GO) membranes are promising to be widely applied to purify water effectively. However, the performance of most membranes prepared at present is not ideal, which may be related to the pore diameter of the substrate (determining the real loading amount of GO) and the size of the GO nanosheets (determining the number of channels on the unit area), which has not been fully studied. In this study, a rotating dip-coating reactor were firstly developed to ensure the uniform deposition of reactants on the surface of the substrate. Then, the preparation method for the membrane was improved. Microfiltration membranes were used as the supporting substrate, polydopamine was deposited as the adhesive layer, ethylenediamine was used to restrict the layer spacing to strengthen the size exclusion effect, and positively charged polyethyleneimine (PEI) was used to strengthen the Donnan effect. Finally, the effects of the pore size of the substrate and the size of the GO nanosheets on the membrane performance were investigated. Compared with the substrates with a pore size of 0.22 mu m in most literatures, substrates of 0.1 mu m can retain more small GO (SGO) nanosheets, thereby improving the performance. The performance of the SGO membrane was much better than that of the large-sized GO membrane. With a water permeability of no less than 7.9 L/(m(2)center dot h center dot bar), rejection rates for Pb2+ and Cd2+ of the SGO membrane could reach more than 97%. These findings are constructive to separate heavy metals from water effectively.