Nanoprecipitation for ultrafiltration membranes |
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Authors: | Qifeng Wang Sadaki Samitsu Yoshihisa Fujii Chiaki Yoshikawa Toyohide Miyazaki Hidekuni Banno Izumi Ichinose |
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Affiliation: | 1. Polymer Materials Unit, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan;2. Biomaterials Unit, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan |
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Abstract: | Polymer nanoparticles are readily obtainable by rapidly mixing a dilute polymer solution and a poor solvent. The nanoparticles of poly(vinylphenol), poly(vinylidene fluoride), and emeraldine base polyaniline prepared by nanoprecipitation become sticky when their diameters decrease down to a few tens of nanometers, and such polymer nanoparticles spontaneously assemble into rigid fractal networks of the nanoparticles. By filtering these fibrous nanoparticle networks on a microfiltration membrane, ultrafiltration membranes with a thin free‐standing filter cake layer made of nanoparticles are obtainable. The nanoparticle membranes are robust at least up to the applied pressure of 2 MPa and can separate 99% of 10 nm Au nanoparticles from the aqueous dispersion at the flux of more than 1835 L m?2 h?1 even at very low pressure difference of 0.08 MPa. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 2015 , 53, 615–620 |
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Keywords: | fibers fibrous nanoparticle network membranes nanoparticles nanoprecipitation phase separation polymer nanoparticles separation techniques ultrafiltration membranes |
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