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Non-ionic deep eutectic solvents for membrane formation

2022; Elsevier BV; Volume: 646; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.memsci.2021.120238

1873-3123

Norafiqah Ismail, Jun Pan, Mahmoud Rahmati, Qian Wang, Denis Bouyer, M. Khayet, Zhaoliang Cui, Naser Tavajohi,

Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis

Deep eutectic solvents (DES) have recently emerged as a new class of inexpensive biodegradable solvents and additives with diverse applications. In this study, a new family of non-ionic deep eutectic solvents (NIDES) is proposed for the first time for membrane preparation. Three types of NIDES, N-methylacetamide-acetamide (DES-1), N-methyl acetamide-N-methyl urea (DES-2), and N-methyl acetamide-N,N′-dimethyl urea (DES-3) were synthesized and used to dissolve polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) polymer. The effects of the additive polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) and the type of NIDES on the PVDF membrane characteristics, water permeability and bovine serum albumin (BSA) separation were studied. The membranes prepared with DES-1 and 2 wt% PVP exhibited a good water permeate flux (96.82 L/m2.h) and a high BSA separation factor (96.32%). High performance PVDF membranes can thus be efficiently prepared using biodegradable inexpensive NIDES.