Preactivated zeolite nanosheet plate-tiled membrane on porous PVDF film: Synthesis and study of proton-selective ion conduction
Preactivated zeolite nanosheet plate-tiled membrane on porous PVDF film: Synthesis and study of proton-selective ion conduction
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DOI:
10.1016/j.memsci.2022.121328
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发表时间:
2022-12-27
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9.5
通讯作者:
Dong, Junhang
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作者:
Iskhakova, Landysh;Cao, Zishu;Dong, Junhang
Preactivated MFI zeolite nanosheet plates (ZNPs) with large areas (-2.0 x 2.0 mu m2) and nanometer thicknesses (-60 nm) were prepared directly in liquid-dispersed state. The individual ZNP was a stack of 4-nm-thick single crystalline zeolite nanosheets (ZNs) interlinked by Si-O-Si bonds between neighboring ZN surfaces. The dispersed open-pore ZNPs allowed formulating suspensions for tiling ZNP membranes on polymer substrates without requiring post-coating activation. A pinhole-free ZNP-tiled (ZNPT) membrane has been achieved on macroporous PVDF film by a self-repairing vacuum-assisted filtration coating method. The resultant ZNPT layer was-500 nm-thick consisting of about 7 ZNP layers with inter-ZNP width and inter-ZNP entrance porosity around 9 nm and 2%, respectively. The ZNPT-PVDF membrane exhibited high selectivity to proton transport over vanadyl ion and low resistances to proton conduction in aqueous solutions. The membrane also demon-strated to function as an efficient ion separator for the vanadium redox flow battery. The reported synthesis of preactivated ZNP suspension may overcome the major hurdle to realizing polymer-supported ZN membranes, which is the inefficiency of existing methods in obtaining readily dispersible open-pore ZNs. The ZNPT-PVDF membrane can be a more affordable and sustainable alternative to the Nafion-based ion separation membranes.