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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Nanotechnology

Background:

  • Stimulus-responsive membranes are crucial for advanced separation systems.
  • Natural lipid membranes exhibit solvent-dependent transport properties.
  • Graphene oxide (GO) membranes offer potential for molecular sieving but often lack tunable selectivity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a smart, switchable molecular sieving membrane by incorporating porous graphene (PG) into graphene oxide (GO).
  • To investigate the membrane's reversible response to different solvent types.
  • To demonstrate its application in graded separation processes.

Main Methods:

  • Fabrication of a hybrid GO-PG membrane.
  • Characterization of membrane permeance and molecular weight cut-off (MWCO) in various solvents (water, methanol).
  • Analysis of transport pathways and solvent-membrane interactions.

Main Results:

  • The GO-PG membrane exhibited high water (45.52 L m⁻² h⁻¹ bar⁻¹) and methanol (13.56 L m⁻² h⁻¹ bar⁻¹) permeance.
  • Reversible switching of MWCO from ~319 g mol⁻¹ in water to 960 g mol⁻¹ in methanol was observed.
  • The switchable sieving behavior was attributed to solvent-induced changes in nanochannel transport pathways and interlayer spacing.

Conclusions:

  • The GO-PG membrane demonstrates tunable, solvent-responsive molecular sieving capabilities.
  • This smart membrane design enables efficient graded separation of solutes with varying molecular weights.
  • The findings open new avenues for designing advanced membranes for complex separation challenges.