Abstract

The properties of porous glass membranes prepared by acid leaching of sodium borosilicate glasses 8B and 8V and also 8B glass containing small amounts of fluorine and phosphorus (SFP) are comprehensively studied. The effect of the composition and conditions of thermal treatment of the original and porous glasses on their structural (specific surface area, structure resistance coefficient, average pore radius, volume porosity, and filtration factor) and electrokinetic characteristics (conductivity, counterion transport numbers, and electrokinetic potential) in KCl solutions at neutral pH values is studied. It is shown that an increase in thermal treatment temperature TTT of the porous glasses from 120 to 750°C leads to a decrease in structure resistance coefficient β of 8B membranes. For membranes prepared from SFP glass, β values, efficiency coefficients, and counterion transport numbers are virtually independent of TTT at 120–600°C and increase at TTT = 750°C. Specific surface area and volume porosity decrease with a rise in TTT for all studied membranes. The observed regularities of variations in the membrane characteristics are explained by the increasing fraction of large pores because of sintering of small pores with an increase in TTT and by the different amounts of secondary silica in the pore space of porous glasses.

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