Abstract
The escalating global demand for clean water has driven a growing interest in developing thin-film composite (TFC) membranes with high permeability and selectivity for wastewater treatment and desalination processes. Engineering polymer materials with precisely tunable properties for selective molecular separation remains a challenging step toward achieving this goal. Herein, we have fabricated a highly permselective asymmetric polyamide nanofilm with a dual-layer structure in which the bottom layer is a porous hyperbranched aromatic polyamide (HBPA) interlayer, and the top layer is a dense polyamide layer with a nanostrip structure. The HBPA porous layer was covalently assembled in situ via oxidative coupling reaction with ammonium persulfate on a polysulfone (PSF) substrate. The hydrophilic porous HBPA interlayer forms nanosized cavities that may enhance the storage and confine amine monomer diffusion, leading to the construction of a striped pattern PA nanofilm. The resulting asymmetric PA membrane exhibits excellent water permeability of 18.39 ± 1 L m−2 h−1 bar−1 (3.98 times that of control membranes) and improved divalent salt (Na2SO4) rejection (≥98 %), surpassing most of the commercial and reported nanofiltration membranes. The HBPA-regulated interfacial polymerization provides a groundbreaking framework for developing high-performance membranes for precisely controlled nanofiltration.
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