Functionalized Nanochannels from Self-Assembled and Photomodified Poly(Styrene-b -Butadiene-b -Styrene)
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Sutisna, Burhannudin
Polymeropoulos, George

Musteata, Valentina-Elena
Sougrat, Rachid

Smilgies, Detlef-M.

Peinemann, Klaus-Viktor

Hadjichristidis, Nikos

Nunes, Suzana Pereira

KAUST Department
Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Research CenterBiological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division
Chemical Engineering Program
Chemical Science Program
Electron Microscopy
Environmental Science and Engineering Program
Imaging and Characterization Core Lab
KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC)
Nanofabrication Core Lab
Nanostructured Polymeric Membrane Lab
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
Polymer Synthesis Laboratory
Water Desalination and Reuse Research Center (WDRC)
KAUST Grant Number
1671 – CRG2Date
2017-10-04Online Publication Date
2017-10-04Print Publication Date
2018-05Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/625830
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Membranes are prepared by self-assembly and casting of 5 and 13 wt% poly(styrene-b-butadiene-b-styrene) (PS-b-PB-b-PS) copolymers solutions in different solvents, followed by immersion in water or ethanol. By controlling the solution-casting gap, porous films of 50 and 1 µm thickness are obtained. A gradient of increasing pore size is generated as the distance from the surface increased. An ordered porous surface layer with continuous nanochannels can be observed. Its formation is investigated, by using time-resolved grazing incident small angle X-ray scattering, electron microscopy, and rheology, suggesting a strong effect of the air-solution interface on the morphology formation. The thin PS-b-PB-b-PS ordered films are modified, by promoting the photolytic addition of thioglycolic acid to the polybutadiene groups, adding chemical functionality and specific transport characteristics on the preformed nanochannels, without sacrificing the membrane morphology. Photomodification increases fivefold the water permeance to around 2 L m(-2) h(-1) bar(-1) , compared to that of the unmodified one. A rejection of 74% is measured for methyl orange in water. The membranes fabrication with tailored nanochannels and chemical functionalities can be demonstrated using relatively lower cost block copolymers. Casting on porous polyacrylonitrile supports makes the membranes even more scalable and competitive in large scale.Citation
Sutisna B, Polymeropoulos G, Musteata V, Sougrat R, Smilgies D-M, et al. (2017) Functionalized Nanochannels from Self-Assembled and Photomodified Poly(Styrene-b -Butadiene-b -Styrene). Small: 1701885. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.201701885.Sponsors
This work was sponsored by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Grant 1671 – CRG2. The authors thank Christopher Waldron, Nimer Wehbe, and Mohamed Nejib Hedhili for the assistance on the XPS measurements, as well as Alessandro Genovese for the EFTEM and STEM–EELS analysis, and Long Chen for the assistance in the AFM measurements. The authors acknowledge Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) in USA and Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron (LNLS) in Brazil for the access to the GISAXS and SAXS synchrotron facilities. The authors thank Florian Meneau and Tiago Araujo Kakile at LNLS for their support at the SAXS1 beamline. CHESS was supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences under NSF award DMR-1332208.Publisher
WileyJournal
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28977736Additional Links
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.201701885/abstractae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1002/smll.201701885
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Nanofabrication Core Lab; Articles; Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE) Division; Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Research Center; Environmental Science and Engineering Program; Imaging and Characterization Core Lab; Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division; Chemical Science Program; Chemical Engineering Program; KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC); Water Desalination and Reuse Research Center (WDRC)Related articles
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