Superhydrophobic Carbon Nanotube Network Membranes for Membrane Distillation: High-Throughput Performance and Transport Mechanism.
CNT network membrane
desalination
high flux performance
membrane distillation
molecule transport mechanism
Journal
Environmental science & technology
ISSN: 1520-5851
Titre abrégé: Environ Sci Technol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0213155
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
03 05 2022
03 05 2022
Historique:
pubmed:
26
4
2022
medline:
6
5
2022
entrez:
25
4
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Despite increasing sustainable water purification, current desalination membranes still suffer from insufficient permeability and treatment efficiency, greatly hindering extensive practical applications. In this work, we provide a new membrane design protocol and molecule-level mechanistic understanding of vapor transport for the treatment of hypersaline waters via a membrane distillation process by rationally fabricating more robust metal-based carbon nanotube (CNT) network membranes, featuring a superhydrophobic superporous surface (80.0 ± 2.3% surface porosity). With highly permeable ductile metal hollow fibers as substrates, the construction of a superhydrophobic (water contact angle ∼170°) CNT network layer endows the membranes with not only almost perfect salt rejection (over 99.9%) but a promising water flux (43.6 L·m
Identifiants
pubmed: 35465657
doi: 10.1021/acs.est.1c08842
doi:
Substances chimiques
Gases
0
Nanotubes, Carbon
0
Steam
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
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