WANG Jianyu, XU Youyi, YI Zhuan, ZHU Liping, ZHU Baoku. SYNTHESIS OF PSF-g-PAA AND PSF-g-PNIPAAm AND THE ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIVE PROPERTIES OF THEIR BLEND MEMBRANES. [J]. Acta Polymerica Sinica (11):1138-1145(2009)
DOI:
WANG Jianyu, XU Youyi, YI Zhuan, ZHU Liping, ZHU Baoku. SYNTHESIS OF PSF-g-PAA AND PSF-g-PNIPAAm AND THE ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIVE PROPERTIES OF THEIR BLEND MEMBRANES. [J]. Acta Polymerica Sinica (11):1138-1145(2009) DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1105.2009.01138.
SYNTHESIS OF PSF-g-PAA AND PSF-g-PNIPAAm AND THE ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIVE PROPERTIES OF THEIR BLEND MEMBRANES
To prepare environmentally resporsive(ER) copolymers which are suitable for fabr ication of ER polysulfone (PSF) membranes
we designed and synthesized the PSF copolymers with poly(acrylic acid)(PAA) and poly(N-isopropylacrylamide (PNIPAAm) side chains
i.e.PSF-g-PAA and PSF-g-NIPAAm
respectively.These two comb-like copolymers were synthesized via ATRP by using a chloromethylated polysulfone as macroinitiator.The molar fraction of PAA and PNIPAAm in the resultant copolymers estimated from 1H-NMR is 0.538 and 0.896
respectively.In using as additives for PSF membranes prepared by the phase inversion process
the comb-like copolymers segregate to the membrane surfaces
delivering improved porosity
average pore diameters
hydrophilicity
and ER properties compared to pure PSF membranes.For instance
20 wt% PSF-g-PAA/PSF and 20 wt% PSF-g-PNIPAAm/PSF blend membranes can be completely wet by water within 35 s and 90 s
respectively.The flux of the aqueous solution through the 20 wt% PSF-g-PAA/PSF membrane decreases with increasing the solution pH valuse from 1 to 6.The water permeation rate through the 20 wt% PSF-g-PNIPAAm/PSF membrane increases with increasing water temperature from 25℃ to 60℃.