Novel Positively Charged Metal-Coordinated Nanofiltration Membrane for Lithium Recovery
- Authors
- Wang, Li; Rehman, Danyal; Sun, Peng-Fei; Deshmukh, Akshay; Zhang, Liyuan; Han, Qi; Yang, Zhe; Wang, Zhongying; Park, Hee-Deung; Lienhard, John H.; Tang, Chuyang Y.
- Issue Date
- 14-4월-2021
- Publisher
- AMER CHEMICAL SOC
- Keywords
- lithium recovery; Cu-MPD; nanofiltration; high permeance and high selectivity; pH-responsive; antimicrobial properties
- Citation
- ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, v.13, no.14, pp.16906 - 16915
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
- Volume
- 13
- Number
- 14
- Start Page
- 16906
- End Page
- 16915
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/128242
- DOI
- 10.1021/acsami.1c02252
- ISSN
- 1944-8244
- Abstract
- Nanofiltration (NF) with high water flux and precise separation performance with high Li+/Mg2+ selectivity is ideal for lithium brine recovery. However, conventional polyamide-based commercial NF membranes are ineffective in lithium recovery processes due to their undesired Li+/Mg2+ selectivity. In addition, they are constrained by the water permeance selectivity trade-off, which means that a highly permeable membrane often has lower selectivity. In this study, we developed a novel nonpolyamide NF membrane based on metal-coordinated structure, which exhibits simultaneously improved water permeance and Li+/Mg2+ selectivity. Specifically, the optimized Cu-m-phenylenediamine (MPD) membrane demonstrated a high water permeance of 16.2 +/- 2.7 LMH/bar and a high Li+/Mg2+ selectivity of 8.0 +/- 1.0, which surpassed the trade-off of permeance selectivity. Meanwhile, the existence of copper in the Cu-MPD membrane further enhanced anti-biofouling property and the metal-coordinated nanofiltration membrane possesses a pH-responsive property. Finally, a transport model based on the Nernst-Planck equations has been developed to fit the water flux and rejection of uncharged solutes to the experiments conducted. The model had a deviation below 2% for all experiments performed and suggested an average pore radius of 1.25 nm with a porosity of 21% for the Cu-MPD membrane. Overall, our study provides an exciting approach for fabricating a nonpolyamide high-performance nanofiltration membrane in the context of lithium recovery.
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