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Gugliuzza A, Boi C. Editorial for the Special Issue "Preparation and Application of Advanced Functional Membranes". MEMBRANES 2024; 14:100. [PMID: 38786935 PMCID: PMC11122922 DOI: 10.3390/membranes14050100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2024] [Revised: 04/09/2024] [Accepted: 04/18/2024] [Indexed: 05/25/2024]
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Membrane science is a discipline that cuts across almost all fields of research and experimentation [...].
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Affiliation(s)
- Annarosa Gugliuzza
- Institute on Membrane Technology-National Research Council, CNR-ITM, Via Pietro Bucci 17C, 87036 Rende, Italy
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- Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Via Terracini 28, 40131 Bologna, Italy
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7905, USA
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Gontarek-Castro E, Di Luca G, Lieder M, Gugliuzza A. Graphene-Coated PVDF Membranes: Effects of Multi-Scale Rough Structure on Membrane Distillation Performance. MEMBRANES 2022; 12:511. [PMID: 35629837 PMCID: PMC9147767 DOI: 10.3390/membranes12050511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2022] [Revised: 05/06/2022] [Accepted: 05/07/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Graphene-coated membranes for membrane distillation have been fabricated by using a wet-filtration approach. Graphene nanoplatelets have been deposited onto PVDF membrane surfaces. Morphology and physicochemical properties have been explored to evaluate the changes in the surface topography and related effects on the membrane performance in water desalination. The membranes have been tested in membrane distillation plants by using mixtures of sodium chloride and humic acid. The multi-scale rough structure of the surface has been envisaged to amplify the wetting and fouling resistance of the graphene-coated membranes so that a better flux and full salt rejection have been achieved in comparison with pristine PVDF. Total salt rejection and an increase of 77% in flux have been observed for coated membrane with optimized graphene content when worked with NaCl 0.6 M (DCMD, ΔT ≈ 24 °C) over a test period of 6 h. The experimental findings suggest these novel graphene-coated membranes as promising materials to develop functional membranes for high-performing water desalination.
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- Emilia Gontarek-Castro
- Department of Process Engineering and Chemical Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, Gdansk University of Technology, 11/12 G. Narutowicza St., 80-233 Gdansk, Poland;
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- Research Institute on Membrane Technology, CNR-ITM, Via Pietro Bucci 17/C, 87036 Rende, Italy;
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- Department of Process Engineering and Chemical Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, Gdansk University of Technology, 11/12 G. Narutowicza St., 80-233 Gdansk, Poland;
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- Research Institute on Membrane Technology, CNR-ITM, Via Pietro Bucci 17/C, 87036 Rende, Italy;
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Frappa M, Castillo AEDR, Macedonio F, Luca GD, Drioli E, Gugliuzza A. Exfoliated Bi 2Te 3-enabled membranes for new concept water desalination: Freshwater production meets new routes. WATER RESEARCH 2021; 203:117503. [PMID: 34388495 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2021] [Revised: 07/09/2021] [Accepted: 07/28/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Water scarcity forces the science to find the most environmentally friendly propulsion technology for supplying plentiful freshwater at low energy costs. Membrane Distillation well meets criteria of eco-friendly management of natural resources, but it is not yet competitive on scale. Herein, we use a dichalchogenide compound (Bi2Te3) as a conceivable source to accelerate the redesign of advanced membranes technologies such as thermally driven membrane distillation. A procedure based on assisted dispersant liquid phase exfoliation is used to fill PVDF membranes. Key insights are gained in the crucial role of this topological material confined in hydrophobic membranes dedicated to recovery of freshwater from synthetic seawater. Intensified water flux together with reduced energy consumption is obtained into one pot, thereby gathering ultrafast production and thermal efficiency in a single device. Bi2Te3-enabled membranes show ability to reduce the resistance to mass transfer while high resistance to heat loss is opposite. Permeate flux is kept stable and salt rejection is higher than 99.99% during 23 h-MD test. Our results confirm the effectiveness of chalcogenides as frontier materials for new-concept water desalination through breakthrough thermally-driven membrane distillation, which is regarded as a new low-energy and sustainable solution to address the growing demand for access to freshwater.
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- M Frappa
- Research Institute on Membrane Technology-National Research Council (CNR-ITM), Via Pietro Bucci 17C, Rende CS 87036, Italy
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- Graphene Labs, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Via Morego 3016163, Italy
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- Research Institute on Membrane Technology-National Research Council (CNR-ITM), Via Pietro Bucci 17C, Rende CS 87036, Italy
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- Research Institute on Membrane Technology-National Research Council (CNR-ITM), Via Pietro Bucci 17C, Rende CS 87036, Italy
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- Research Institute on Membrane Technology-National Research Council (CNR-ITM), Via Pietro Bucci 17C, Rende CS 87036, Italy; Department of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, University of Calabria, Via Pietro Bucci, Rende, CS 87036, Italy
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- Research Institute on Membrane Technology-National Research Council (CNR-ITM), Via Pietro Bucci 17C, Rende CS 87036, Italy.
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Alibakhshi S, Youssefi M, Hosseini SS, Zadhoush A. Significance of thermodynamics and rheological characteristics of dope solutions on the morphological evolution of polyethersulfone ultrafiltration membranes. POLYM ENG SCI 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/pen.25613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Somayeh Alibakhshi
- Department of Textile Engineering Isfahan University of Technology Isfahan Iran
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- Department of Textile Engineering Isfahan University of Technology Isfahan Iran
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- Membrane Science and Technology Research Group, Department of Chemical Engineering Tarbiat Modares University Tehran Iran
- Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability Research Unit, College of Science, Engineering and Technology University of South Africa Johannesburg South Africa
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- Department of Textile Engineering Isfahan University of Technology Isfahan Iran
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Frappa M, Del Rio Castillo AE, Macedonio F, Politano A, Drioli E, Bonaccorso F, Pellegrini V, Gugliuzza A. A few-layer graphene for advanced composite PVDF membranes dedicated to water desalination: a comparative study. NANOSCALE ADVANCES 2020; 2:4728-4739. [PMID: 36132930 PMCID: PMC9417500 DOI: 10.1039/d0na00403k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2020] [Accepted: 08/15/2020] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Membrane distillation is envisaged to be a promising best practice to recover freshwater from seawater with the prospect of building low energy-consuming devices powered by natural and renewable energy sources in remote and less accessible areas. Moreover, there is an additional benefit of integrating this green technology with other well-established operations dedicated to desalination. Today, the development of membrane distillation depends on the productivity-efficiency ratio on a large scale. Despite hydrophobic commercial membranes being widely used, no membrane with suitable morphological and chemical feature is readily available in the market. Thus, there is a real need to identify best practices for developing new efficient membranes for more productive and eco-sustainable membrane distillation devices. Here, we propose engineered few-layer graphene membranes, showing enhanced trans-membrane fluxes and total barrier action against NaCl ions. The obtained performances are linked with filling polymeric membranes with few-layer graphene of 490 nm in lateral size, produced by the wet-jet milling technology. The experimental evidence, together with comparative analyses, confirmed that the use of more largely sized few-layer graphene leads to superior productivity related efficiency trade-off for the membrane distillation process. Herein, it was demonstrated that the quality of exfoliation is a crucial factor for addressing the few-layer graphene supporting the separation capability of the host membranes designed for water desalination.
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- M Frappa
- Institute on Membrane Technology-National Research Council (CNR-ITM) Via Pietro Bucci 17C Rende (CS) 87036 Italy
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- Graphene Labs, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Via Morego 3016163 Genova Italy
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- Institute on Membrane Technology-National Research Council (CNR-ITM) Via Pietro Bucci 17C Rende (CS) 87036 Italy
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- Graphene Labs, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Via Morego 3016163 Genova Italy
- Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of L'Aquila Via Vetoio 67100 L'Aquila AQ Italy
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- Institute on Membrane Technology-National Research Council (CNR-ITM) Via Pietro Bucci 17C Rende (CS) 87036 Italy
- Department of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, University of Calabria Via P. Bucci 87036 Rende CS Italy
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- Graphene Labs, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Via Morego 3016163 Genova Italy
- Bedimensional s.p.a Via Albisola 121 16163 Genova Italy
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- Graphene Labs, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Via Morego 3016163 Genova Italy
- Bedimensional s.p.a Via Albisola 121 16163 Genova Italy
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- Institute on Membrane Technology-National Research Council (CNR-ITM) Via Pietro Bucci 17C Rende (CS) 87036 Italy
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Perrotta ML, Macedonio F, Giorno L, Jin W, Drioli E, Gugliuzza A, Tocci E. Molecular insights on NaCl crystal formation approaching PVDF membranes functionalized with graphene. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:7817-7827. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cp00928h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Atomistic simulations of graphene–PVDF membranes speeding up NaCl crystal nucleation and growth in comparison to the pristine PVDF membranes.
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- Maria Luisa Perrotta
- National Research Council-Institute on Membrane Technology
- ITM-CNR
- 87036 Rende (CS)
- Italy
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- National Research Council-Institute on Membrane Technology
- ITM-CNR
- 87036 Rende (CS)
- Italy
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- National Research Council-Institute on Membrane Technology
- ITM-CNR
- 87036 Rende (CS)
- Italy
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering
- College of Chemical Engineering
- Nanjing Tech University
- Nanjing 211816
- China
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- National Research Council-Institute on Membrane Technology
- ITM-CNR
- 87036 Rende (CS)
- Italy
- Engineering Research Center for Special Separation Membrane
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- National Research Council-Institute on Membrane Technology
- ITM-CNR
- 87036 Rende (CS)
- Italy
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- National Research Council-Institute on Membrane Technology
- ITM-CNR
- 87036 Rende (CS)
- Italy
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Choi Y, Naidu G, Lee S, Vigneswaran S. Effect of inorganic and organic compounds on the performance of fractional-submerged membrane distillation-crystallizer. J Memb Sci 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2019.03.089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Gugliuzza A, Politano A, Drioli E. Graphene and 2D Materials Based Membranes for Water Treatment. GRAPHENE-BASED MEMBRANES FOR MASS TRANSPORT APPLICATIONS 2018. [DOI: 10.1039/9781788013017-00211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Herein, the state-of-the-art in water desalination using two-dimensional-based membranes is discussed with a special focus on membranes containing graphene. Despite a certain discrepancy between molecular modeling and experimental studies that exists, the earliest implementations of graphene-based membranes for water desalination show exceptional performances in terms of salt rejection and transmembrane flux. Likewise, two-dimensional materials beyond graphene are also promising candidates as ultrathin membranes for advanced branches of membrane contactors.
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- Annarosa Gugliuzza
- Research Institute on Membrane Technology-National Research Council (CNR-ITM) Via Pietro Bucci 17C Rende (CS), 87036 Italy
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- Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Graphene Labs Via Morego 30 16163 Genoa Italy
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- Research Institute on Membrane Technology-National Research Council (CNR-ITM) Via Pietro Bucci 17C Rende (CS), 87036 Italy
- Department of Energy Engineering, College of Engineering, Hanyang University Seoul 133-791 Republic of Korea
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Othman R, Vladisavljević GT, Simone E, Nagy ZK, Holdich RG. Preparation of Microcrystals of Piroxicam Monohydrate by Antisolvent Precipitation via Microfabricated Metallic Membranes with Ordered Pore Arrays. CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN 2017; 17:6692-6702. [PMID: 29234241 PMCID: PMC5722433 DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.7b01307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2017] [Revised: 11/09/2017] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Microcrystals of piroxicam (PRX) monohydrate with a narrow size distribution were prepared from acetone/PRX solutions by antisolvent crystallization via metallic membranes with ordered pore arrays. Crystallization was achieved by controlled addition of the feed solution through the membrane pores into a well-stirred antisolvent. A complete transformation of an anhydrous form I into a monohydrate form of PRX was confirmed by Raman spectroscopy and differential scanning calorimetry. The size of the crystals was 7-34 μm and was controlled by the PRX concentration in the feed solution (15-25 g L-1), antisolvent/solvent volume ratio (5-30), and type of antisolvent (Milli-Q water or 0.1-0.5 wt % aqueous solutions of hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose (HPMC), poly(vinyl alcohol) or Pluronic P-123). The smallest crystals were obtained by injecting 25 g L-1 PRX solution through a stainless-steel membrane with a pore size of 10 μm into a 0.06 wt % HPMC solution stirred at 1500 rpm using an antisolvent/solvent ratio of 20. HPMC provided better steric stabilization of microcrystals against agglomeration than poly(vinyl alcohol) and Pluronic P-123, due to hydrogen bonding interactions with PRX and water. A continuous production of large PRX monohydrate microcrystals with a volume-weighted mean diameter above 75 μm was achieved in a continuous stirred membrane crystallizer. Rapid pouring of Milli-Q water into the feed solution resulted in a mixture of highly polydispersed prism-shaped and needle-shaped crystals.
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- Rahimah Othman
- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University, Ashby Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, U.K.
- School
of Bioprocess Engineering, Universiti Malaysia
Perlis, Kompleks Pusat
Pengajian Jejawi 3, 02600 Arau, Perlis, Malaysia
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University, Ashby Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, U.K.
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University, Ashby Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, U.K.
- School
of Food Science and Nutrition, University
of Leeds, Leeds, LS29JT, U.K.
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University, Ashby Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, U.K.
- School
of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2100, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University, Ashby Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, U.K.
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Gugliuzza A, Drioli E. A review on membrane engineering for innovation in wearable fabrics and protective textiles. J Memb Sci 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2013.07.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 166] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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De Lorenzo L, Tocci E, Gugliuzza A, Drioli E. Assembly of nanocomposite PEBAX membranes: A complementary study of affinity and clusterization phenomena. J Memb Sci 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2012.06.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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