Controlling Ultrafiltration Membrane Rejection via Shear-Aligned Deposition of Cellulose Nanocrystals from Aqueous Suspensions

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2021-08-01

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Kocaman, Ceren
Büküşoğlu, Emre
Çulfaz Emecen, Pınar Zeynep

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Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) of 180 nm length and 8 nm diameter were deposited on porous supports by tangential flow filtration followed by salt permeation to form ultrafiltration membranes. At a high enough shear rate on the support surface, CNCs aligned in the direction of flow, showing a nematic order. The shear rates for transition to the nematic phase determined from rheology analysis, polarized optical microscopy, and membrane performance were consistent with one another, at ca. 10 s(-1). Permeating an AlCl3 solution through the shear-aligned CNC deposit stabilized the CNC layer by screening repulsive electrostatic interactions, and the stable CNC layer was obtained. On changing the surface shear rate from 10 to 50 s(-1), the order parameter of CNCs increased from 0.17 to 0.7 and the rejection for Blue Dextran (5 kDa) increased from 80.4 to 92.7% and that for beta-lactoglobulin (18 kDa) increased from 89.6 to 95.4%. Hence, a simple and scalable method for controlling rejection properties of ultrafiltration membranes is developed, which uses aqueous CNC suspensions to form the selective layer.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/92021

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ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES

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https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c09815

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C. Kocaman, E. Büküşoğlu, and P. Z. Çulfaz Emecen, “Controlling Ultrafiltration Membrane Rejection via Shear-Aligned Deposition of Cellulose Nanocrystals from Aqueous Suspensions,” ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, vol. 13, no. 30, pp. 36548–36557, 2021, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/92021.