Abstract
Nanofiltration (NF) is an efficient and economic separation technology which has great application potential in solving worldwide water shortage. Constructing interlayer is an effective approach to fabricate thin film composite (TFC) polyamide (PA) NF membranes with better performance. Herein, the polystyrene-polyacrylamide nanospheres with core-shell structure were synthesized using an emulsion polymerization method. The PA NF membranes were prepared via interfacial polymerization (IP) on the mixed cellulose esters microfiltration (MCE MF) membranes which modified with the core-shell structured nanospheres. The fabricated PA NF membranes showed good performance with a pure water permeability of 18.9 L·m−2·h−1·bar−1 and Na2SO4 rejection of 97.4 %. The NF membranes also showed good antibiotics separation performance with rejection to levofloxacin (LEV), penicillin G (PG), tetracycline (TC), and erythromycin (ERY) of 97.1 %, 86.9 %, 92.2 %, and 96.4 %, respectively and efficient separation to antibiotics and NaCl. This work provides a feasible strategy to construct an interlayer of PA NF membranes with the core-shell structured polystyrene-polyacrylamide nanospheres.
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