Soft Matter
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2022
·Vol. 18
·期 26
·4991-5000
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IF 4.046
Pan Cheng,Peng Huang,Cancan Ji,Xiaodan Jia,Qihao Guo,Ming Xia,Qin Cheng,Jia Xu,Ke Liu,Dong Wang
Constructing a sterile membrane with a robust and antifouling surface is a powerful means to improve the sterile filtration efficiency of sterile membranes. In this work, a robust EVOH nanofibrous sterile membrane was facilely fabricated by the method of in situ crosslinking with glutaraldehyde and surface plasma treatment. The resultant EVOH nanofibrous sterile membrane possessed a carboxylated-crosslinked surface, with high hydrophilicity, which generated high chemical stability, high-temperature steam resistance, and an ultrahigh antifouling performance against bovine serum albumin, ribonucleic acid and nanoparticle pollutants. Moreover, the membrane also exhibited a reasonably high primary water permeance (4522.2 LMH bar−1 at 0.2 MPa), as well as an absolute interception rate (100%) of Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus cells and Brevundimonas diminuta superior to the state-of-the-art sterile membrane. Moreover, the modified membrane packed syringe-driven filter presented 100% interception (LRV ≥ 7) to Brevundimonas diminuta and high permeation flux (from 10.8 to 41.8 L·h−1) in a wide operating pressure range of 0.1 MPa to 0.6 MPa, indicating its potential in real bio-separation applications. This work provides a facile strategy for the preparation of a high-performance sterile membrane for biological drug product sterilization.
研究领域:
材料科学
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生物医学工程
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化学工程
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高影响因子
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2018
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IF 8.097
Qing Zhu,Yuxia Jin,Wen Wang,Gang Sun,Dong Wang
Biomimetic actuators with rapid response speed, high sensitivity, and selectivity to external stimulus have found potential applications in smart switches, artificial muscles, and soft robots. The nanoscale structures of actuators enhance the exposed area to stimulus as well as enable versatile control of the actuation behaviors. Freestanding, flexible, and porous water-driven actuators with poly(vinyl alcohol-co-ethylene) (EVOH) nanofibers as the substrate and super hydrophilic nanoscale cellulose materials (cellulose nanofibers, cellulose nanocrystals, bacterial cellulose) as the active substance via uniform mixing or surface depositing were fabricated. The effects of the EVOH nanofiber substrate, the structures and concentrations of nanoscale cellulose materials, as well as the different environmental stimuli like humidity and temperature on the performance of actuators were studied. The water-driven actuation mechanism was proposed from the macroscopic and molecular aspects and the analysis of Gibbs free energy and mechanical energy. The actuator could bend to an angle of 180° and recovered less than 1 s for more than 100 circles without compromising properties when the environmental moisture changed. Furthermore, the multidimensional deformation behaviors of the water-stimulated actuators could also be well tuned by varying the orientations of the nanoscale materials. Additionally, the applications of the prepared actuator were demonstrated.
研究领域:
材料科学
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生物仿生学
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纳米技术
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PubMed
高影响因子
MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
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2022
·Vol. 223
·期 16
·2200088
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IF 2.996
Siqi Ma,Nian Liu,Pan Cheng,Wei Hu,Xiaodan Jia,Qihao Guo,Ming Xia,Qin Cheng,Ke Liu,Dong Wang
The pursuit of highly permeable thin-film nanocomposite (TFNC) nanofiltration (NF) membranes with desirable selectivity is an eternal topic for desalination and wastewater treatment. Herein, a facile route to engineer polyamide (PA) NF membranes is reported with a coral-reef-like thin PA active layer atop a polydopamine pre-decorated ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVOH) nanofiber scaffold (EVOH-PDA) via interfacial polymerization (IP). EVOH-PDA possesses a submicron pore size and super-hydrophilic surface, which provides abundant thin water layers covering nanofibers in the IP process resulting in the PA layer with a morphology of coral-reef-like highland surrounded by flat low-lying regions. The resultant NF membrane presents high permeance of 32.19 L m −2 h −1 bar −1 and high rejection of 96.52% to 1000 ppm Na 2 SO 4 feed solution with a stable performance against operation time and high salt concentration. This work provides a new approach to fabricating PA TFNC membranes with outstanding NF performance in liquid separation applications.
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材料科学
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环境工程
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高影响因子
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2021
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IF 9.229
Ke Liu,Nian Liu,Siqi Ma,Pan Cheng,Wei Hu,Xiaodan Jia,Qin Cheng,Jia Xu,Qihao Guo,Dong Wang
For energy-saving purposes, the pursuit of ultrahigh permeance nanofiltration membranes without sacrificing selectivity is never-ending in desalination, wastewater treatment, and industrial product separation. Herein, we reported a novel facile route to engineer a highly porous and superhydrophilic nanofibrous substrate to mediate the interfacial polymerization between trimesoyl chloride and piperazine, generating an ultrathin PA active layer (∼13 nm) with a hierarchical crumpled surface. The wet laying process and subsequent plasma treatment endowed a rougher and more hydrophilic surface for ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVOH) nanofibers in the thin compact nanofibrous scaffold (∼9 μm) with a mean pore size of 210 nm, radically different from the nanofibrous membrane by other methods. Nanofibrous scaffold with these features provide abundant thin–thick alternative continuous water layers between nanofibers and organic phase, facilitating the formation of the abovementioned PA layer. As a result, an ultrahigh permeance of 42.25 L·m–2 h–1 bar–1 and a reasonably high rejection of 95.97% to 1000 ppm Na2SO4 feed solution were obtained, superior to most state-of-the-art NF membranes reported so far. Our work provides an easy and scalable method to fabricate advanced PA NF membranes with outstanding performance, highlighting its great potential in liquid separation.
研究领域:
材料科学
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环境工程
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水处理技术
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高影响因子
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
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2018
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IF 4.484
Yuxia Jin,Qing Zhu,Weibing Zhong,Kelu Yan,Dong Wang
Despite much progress in solvent-sensitive actuators, most of the actuators are sensitive to water, ethanol, or acetone with low responsive speed and small curvature. Herein, a simple approach was introduced to fabricate a new solvent-sensitive bilayer actuator consisting of a poly(vinyl alcohol-co-ethylene) (EVOH) nanofibrous membrane and polystyrene (PS) microspheres. The actuator showed superfast and multistimulus responsive ability to organic vapors of toluene, chloroform, THF, and acetone. With solvents stimulation, the difference in swelling degree between the EVOH layer and PS microspheres layer contributed to the asymmetric expansions or contractions of two layers, therefore resulting in the mechanical deformation of the actuator. The flexible and porous EVOH nanofibrous membrane, as well as the spherical PS, could improve the response rate and deformation scale. This bilayer actuator could bend quickly into a multicoil with the curvature of 21.02 cm–1 within 0.15 s in response to toluene vapor, and the bending–unbending process could repeat more than 150 times when the deformation degree was controlled by cross-linking PS microspheres with divinylbenzene. This study will provide an important insight for the development of new solvent-sensitive devices and applications in volatile organic compounds detecting.
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材料科学
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化学工程
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智能材料
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高影响因子
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