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Petriev I, Pushankina P, Andreev G, Ivanin S, Dzhimak S. High-Performance Hydrogen-Selective Pd-Ag Membranes Modified with Pd-Pt Nanoparticles for Use in Steam Reforming Membrane Reactors. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:17403. [PMID: 38139232 PMCID: PMC10744327 DOI: 10.3390/ijms242417403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2023] [Revised: 12/07/2023] [Accepted: 12/08/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023] Open
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A unique method for synthesizing a surface modifier for metallic hydrogen permeable membranes based on non-classic bimetallic pentagonally structured Pd-Pt nanoparticles was developed. It was found that nanoparticles had unique hollow structures. This significantly reduced the cost of their production due to the economical use of metal. According to the results of electrochemical studies, a synthesized bimetallic Pd-Pt/Pd-Ag modifier showed excellent catalytic activity (up to 60.72 mA cm-2), long-term stability, and resistance to COads poisoning in the alkaline oxidation reaction of methanol. The membrane with the pentagonally structured Pd-Pt/Pd-Ag modifier showed the highest hydrogen permeation flux density, up to 27.3 mmol s-1 m-2. The obtained hydrogen flux density was two times higher than that for membranes with a classic Pdblack/Pd-Ag modifier and an order of magnitude higher than that for an unmodified membrane. Since the rate of transcrystalline hydrogen transfer through a membrane increased, while the speed of transfer through defects remained unchanged, a one and a half times rise in selectivity of the developed Pd-Pt/Pd-Ag membranes was recorded, and it amounted to 3514. The achieved results were due to both the synergistic effect of the combination of Pd and Pt metals in the modifier composition and the large number of available catalytically active centers, which were present as a result of non-classic morphology with high-index facets. The specific faceting, defect structure, and unusual properties provide great opportunities for the application of nanoparticles in the areas of membrane reactors, electrocatalysis, and the petrochemical and hydrogen industries.
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- Iliya Petriev
- Department of Physics, Kuban State University, Krasnodar 350040, Russia (S.I.)
- Laboratory of Problems of Stable Isotope Spreading in Living Systems, Southern Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Rostov-on-Don 344006, Russia
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- Department of Physics, Kuban State University, Krasnodar 350040, Russia (S.I.)
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- Department of Physics, Kuban State University, Krasnodar 350040, Russia (S.I.)
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- Department of Physics, Kuban State University, Krasnodar 350040, Russia (S.I.)
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- Department of Physics, Kuban State University, Krasnodar 350040, Russia (S.I.)
- Laboratory of Problems of Stable Isotope Spreading in Living Systems, Southern Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Rostov-on-Don 344006, Russia
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Romero V, Gelde L, Benavente J. Electrochemical Characterization of Charged Membranes from Different Materials and Structures via Membrane Potential Analysis. MEMBRANES 2023; 13:739. [PMID: 37623800 PMCID: PMC10456455 DOI: 10.3390/membranes13080739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2023] [Revised: 08/02/2023] [Accepted: 08/11/2023] [Indexed: 08/26/2023]
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Electrochemical characterization of positively and negatively charged membranes is performed by analyzing membrane potential values on the basis of the Teorell-Meyer-Sievers (TMS) model. This analysis allows the separate estimation of Donnan (interfacial effects) and diffusion (differences in ions transport through the membrane) contributions, and it permits the evaluation of the membrane's effective fixed charge concentration and the transport number of the ions in the membrane. Typical ion-exchange commercial membranes (AMX, Ionics or Nafion) are analyzed, though other experimental and commercial membranes, which are derived from different materials and have diverse structures (dense, swollen or nanoporous structures), are also considered. Moreover, for some membranes, changes associated with different modifications and other effects (concentration gradient or level, solution stirring, etc.) are also analyzed.
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- Departamento de Física Aplicada I, Facultad de Ciencia, Universidad de Málaga, 29071 Málaga, Spain; (V.R.); (L.G.)
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Filippov AN, Akberova EM, Vasil’eva VI. Study of the Thermochemical Effect on the Transport and Structural Characteristics of Heterogeneous Ion-Exchange Membranes by Combining the Cell Model and the Fine-Porous Membrane Model. Polymers (Basel) 2023; 15:3390. [PMID: 37631447 PMCID: PMC10459541 DOI: 10.3390/polym15163390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2023] [Revised: 08/08/2023] [Accepted: 08/10/2023] [Indexed: 08/27/2023] Open
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For the first time, based on the joint application of the fine-porous and cell models, a theoretical analysis of the changing transport and structural characteristics of heterogeneous polymeric ion-exchange membranes (IEMs) MK-40, MA-40, and MA-41 after exposure to elevated temperatures in water and aggressive media (H2SO4 and NaOH solutions), as well as after long-term processing in electrodialyzers of various types, was carried out. The studied membranes are composites of ion-exchange polymers with polyethylene and nylon reinforcing mesh. The external influences provoke the aging of IEMs and the deterioration of their characteristics. The transport properties of IEMs are quantitatively described using five physicochemical parameters: counterion diffusion and equilibrium distribution coefficients in the membrane, characteristic exchange capacity, which depends on the microporosity of ion-exchanger particles, and macroscopic porosity at a known exchange capacity of IEMs. Calculations of the physicochemical parameters of the membranes were performed according to a specially developed fitting technique using the experimental concentration dependences of integral diffusion permeability and specific electrical conductivity, and their model analogs. This made it possible to identify and evaluate changes in the membrane micro- and macrostructure and examine the process of artificial aging of the IEM polymer material due to the abovementioned external impacts.
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- Anatoly N. Filippov
- Department of Higher Mathematics, Gubkin University, Leninsky Prospect 65, Bld. 1, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Faculty, Voronezh State University, Universitetskaya pl. 1, 394018 Voronezh, Russia; (E.M.A.); (V.I.V.)
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Faculty, Voronezh State University, Universitetskaya pl. 1, 394018 Voronezh, Russia; (E.M.A.); (V.I.V.)
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Safronova EY, Lysova AA, Voropaeva DY, Yaroslavtsev AB. Approaches to the Modification of Perfluorosulfonic Acid Membranes. MEMBRANES 2023; 13:721. [PMID: 37623782 PMCID: PMC10456953 DOI: 10.3390/membranes13080721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2023] [Revised: 08/01/2023] [Accepted: 08/05/2023] [Indexed: 08/26/2023]
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Polymer ion-exchange membranes are featured in a variety of modern technologies including separation, concentration and purification of gases and liquids, chemical and electrochemical synthesis, and hydrogen power generation. In addition to transport properties, the strength, elasticity, and chemical stability of such materials are important characteristics for practical applications. Perfluorosulfonic acid (PFSA) membranes are characterized by an optimal combination of these properties. Today, one of the most well-known practical applications of PFSA membranes is the development of fuel cells. Some disadvantages of PFSA membranes, such as low conductivity at low humidity and high temperature limit their application. The approaches to optimization of properties are modification of commercial PFSA membranes and polymers by incorporation of different additive or pretreatment. This review summarizes the approaches to their modification, which will allow the creation of materials with a different set of functional properties, differing in ion transport (first of all proton conductivity) and selectivity, based on commercially available samples. These approaches include the use of different treatment techniques as well as the creation of hybrid materials containing dopant nanoparticles. Modification of the intrapore space of the membrane was shown to be a way of targeting the key functional properties of the membranes.
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- Ekaterina Yu. Safronova
- Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Avenue, 31, 119991 Moscow, Russia; (A.A.L.); (D.Y.V.); (A.B.Y.)
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Liu J, Zhang T, Sun S. Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Ion Transport through Protein Nanochannels in Peritoneal Dialysis. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:10074. [PMID: 37373224 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241210074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2023] [Revised: 05/15/2023] [Accepted: 05/23/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023] Open
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In recent decades, the development of dialysis techniques has greatly improved the survival rate of renal failure patients, and peritoneal dialysis is gradually showing dominance over hemodialysis. This method relies on the abundant membrane proteins in the peritoneum, avoiding the use of artificial semipermeable membranes, and the ion fluid transport is partly controlled by the protein nanochannels. Hence, this study investigated ion transport in these nanochannels by using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and an MD Monte Carlo (MDMC) algorithm for a generalized protein nanochannel model and a saline fluid environment. The spatial distribution of ions was determined via MD simulations, and it agreed with that modeled via the MDMC method; the effects of simulation duration and external electronic fields were also explored to validate the MDMC algorithm. The specific atomic sequence within a nanochannel was visualized, which was the rare transport state during the ion transport process. The residence time was assessed through both methods to represent the involved dynamic process, and its values showed the temporal sequential order of different components in the nanochannel as follows: H2O > Na+ > Cl-. The accurate prediction using the MDMC method of the spatial and temporal properties proves its suitability to handle ion transport problems in protein nanochannels.
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- Jie Liu
- Computational Transport Phenomena Laboratory, Physical Science and Engineering Division (PSE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Computational Transport Phenomena Laboratory, Physical Science and Engineering Division (PSE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Computational Transport Phenomena Laboratory, Physical Science and Engineering Division (PSE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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Kapitonov AA, Ryzhkov II. Modelling the Performance of Electrically Conductive Nanofiltration Membranes. MEMBRANES 2023; 13:596. [PMID: 37367800 DOI: 10.3390/membranes13060596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2023] [Revised: 05/31/2023] [Accepted: 06/06/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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Electrically conductive membranes are a class of stimuli-responsive materials, which allow the adjustment of selectivity for and the rejection of charged species by varying the surface potential. The electrical assistance provides a powerful tool for overcoming the selectivity-permeability trade-off due to its interaction with charged solutes, allowing the passage of neutral solvent molecules. In this work, a mathematical model for the nanofiltration of binary aqueous electrolytes by an electrically conductive membrane is proposed. The model takes into account the steric as well as Donnan exclusion of charged species due to the simultaneous presence of chemical and electronic surface charges. It is shown that the rejection reaches its minimum at the potential of zero charge (PZC), where the electronic and chemical charges compensate for each other. The rejection increases when the surface potential varies in positive and negative directions with respect to the PZC. The proposed model is successfully applied to a description of experimental data on the rejection of salts and anionic dyes by PANi-PSS/CNT and MXene/CNT nanofiltration membranes. The results provide new insights into the selectivity mechanisms of conductive membranes and can be employed to describe electrically enhanced nanofiltration processes.
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- Alexey A Kapitonov
- Institute of Computational Modelling SB RAS, Akademgorodok 50-44, 660036 Krasnoyarsk, Russia
- School of Space and Information Technology, Siberian Federal University, Svobodny 79, 660041 Krasnoyarsk, Russia
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- Institute of Computational Modelling SB RAS, Akademgorodok 50-44, 660036 Krasnoyarsk, Russia
- School of Space and Information Technology, Siberian Federal University, Svobodny 79, 660041 Krasnoyarsk, Russia
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Ganchenko GS, Alekseev MS, Moroz IA, Mareev SA, Shelistov VS, Demekhin EA. Electrokinetic and Electroconvective Effects in Ternary Electrolyte Near Ion-Selective Microsphere. MEMBRANES 2023; 13:membranes13050503. [PMID: 37233564 DOI: 10.3390/membranes13050503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2023] [Revised: 05/05/2023] [Accepted: 05/08/2023] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The paper presents theoretical and experimental investigations of the behavior of an electrolyte solution with three types of ions near an ion-selective microparticle with electrokinetically and pressure-driven flow. A special experimental cell has been developed for the investigations. An anion-selective spherical particle composed of ion-exchange resin is fixed in the center of the cell. An enriched region with a high salt concentration appears at the anode side of the particle when an electric field is turned on, according to the nonequilibrium electrosmosis behavior. A similar region exists near a flat anion-selective membrane. However, the enriched region near the particle produces a concentration jet that spreads downstream akin to a wake behind an axisymmetrical body. The fluorescent cations of Rhodamine-6G dye are chosen as the third species in the experiments. The ions of Rhodamine-6G have a 10-fold lower diffusion coefficient than the ions of potassium while bearing the same valency. This paper shows that the concentration jet behavior is described accurately enough with the mathematical model of a far axisymmetric wake behind a body in a fluid flow. The third species also forms an enriched jet, but its distribution turns out to be more complex. The concentration of the third species increases in the jet with an increase in pressure gradient. The pressure-driven flow stabilizes the jet, yet electroconvection has been observed near the microparticle for sufficiently strong electric fields. The electrokinetic instability and the electroconvection partially destroy the concentration jet of salt and the third species. The conducted experiments show good qualitative agreement with the numerical simulations. The presented results could be used in future for implementing microdevices based on membrane technology for solving problems of detection and preconcentration, and thus simplifying chemical and medical analyses utilizing the superconcentration phenomenon. Such devices are called membrane sensors, and are actively being studied.
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- Georgy S Ganchenko
- Laboratory of Micro- and Nanoscale Electro- and Hydrodynamics, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, 53 Leningradsky Prospect str., Moscow 125167, Russia
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- Laboratory of Micro- and Nanoscale Electro- and Hydrodynamics, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, 53 Leningradsky Prospect str., Moscow 125167, Russia
- Membrane Institute, Kuban State University, 149 Stavropolskaya str., Krasnodar 350040, Russia
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- Membrane Institute, Kuban State University, 149 Stavropolskaya str., Krasnodar 350040, Russia
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- Membrane Institute, Kuban State University, 149 Stavropolskaya str., Krasnodar 350040, Russia
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- Laboratory of Micro- and Nanoscale Electro- and Hydrodynamics, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, 53 Leningradsky Prospect str., Moscow 125167, Russia
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- Laboratory of Micro- and Nanoscale Electro- and Hydrodynamics, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, 53 Leningradsky Prospect str., Moscow 125167, Russia
- Laboratory of General Aeromechanics, Institute of Mechanics, Moscow State University, 1 Michurinsky Prospect, Moscow 119192, Russia
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Nikonenko V, Pismenskaya N. Ion and Molecule Transport in Membrane Systems 3.0 and 4.0. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24098211. [PMID: 37175918 PMCID: PMC10179545 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24098211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2023] [Revised: 04/27/2023] [Accepted: 04/30/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023] Open
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This book is a collection of papers published in the 3rd and 4th Special Issues of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences under the standard title, "Ion and Molecule Transport in Membrane Systems" [...].
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- Victor Nikonenko
- Membrane Institute, Kuban State University, 350040 Krasnodar, Russia
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