Scalable Graphene Oxide Hollow Fiber Membranes for Dye Desalination Enabled by Multi‐Purpose Polyamine Functionalization
2D nanosheets such as graphene oxide (GO) can be stacked to construct membranes with fine-tuned nanochannels to achieve molecular sieving ability. These membranes are often thin to achieve high water permeance, but their fabrication with consistent nanostructures on a large scale presents an enormous challenge. Herein, GO-based hollow fiber membranes (HFMs) are developed for dye desalination by synergistically combining chemical etching to form in-plane nanopores (10-30 nm) to increase water permeance and polyamine functionalization to improve underwater stability and enable facile large-scale production using existing membrane manufacturing processes. HFM modules with areas of 88 cm<sup>2</sup> and GO layer thicknesses of ≈500 nm are fabricated, and they exhibited a stable dye water permeance of 75 L m<sup>-2</sup> h<sup>-1</sup> bar<sup>-1</sup>, rejection of >99.5% for Direct red and Congo red, and Na<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub>/dye separation factor of 300-500, superior to state-of-the-art commercial membranes. The versatility of this approach is also demonstrated using different short polyamines and porous substrates. This study reveals a scalable way of designing 2D materials into high-performance robust membranes for practical applications.
Authors
- Miao Yu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-7563)
- Haiqing Lin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8042-154X)
- Kaleb Friedman
- Chong Cheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4637-1320)
- Erda Deng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2862-4440)
- Ameya Manoj Tandel
- Lingxiang Zhu
- Manas Agarwal
Institutions
- Defense Logistics Agency (US)
- National Energy Technology Laboratory (US)
- University at Buffalo, State University of New York (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Small
- Published
- 2024-09-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202403620
- Citations
- 8
- Primary Topic
- Membrane Separation Technologies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.61
Funders
- Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy