Water Permeability Increase in Ultrafiltration Cellulose Acetate Membrane Containing Silver Nanoparticles

Inorganic nanoparticles incorporation in polymer membranes for filtration processes has attracted the attention of researchers in order to improve in some ways their performance. In this work, AgNPs were synthesized "in situ" in cellulose acetate (CA) membrane by chemical reduction of a silver salt. The membranes were prepared by the nonsolvent induced phase inversion method. Asymmetric membranes without (CA-M) and with adsorbed AgNPs (CA-Ag-M) were obtained. Ultrafiltration properties were confirmed for both membranes (16 nm of average pore diameter) and average crystallite size of 21 nm for the adsorbed AgNPs was computed. Contact angle measured with Milli-Q water and dry CA-Ag-M is near zero while for the CA-M is around 80°. The CA-M showed water permeability of 214 Lh-1m-2, while the CA-Ag-M permeability was 1651 Lh-1m-2.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Pereira,Bruna da Silva, Moreti,Lívia Oliveira Ruiz, Silva,Marcela Fernandes, Bergamasco,Rosangela, Piccioli,Angélica de Fátima Bortolato, Garcia,Edvaldo Egea, Costa,Wilian Vidoto da, Pineda,Edgardo Alfonso Gómez, Oliveira,Daniela Martins Fernandes de, Hechenleitner,Ana Adelina Winkler
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	ABM, ABC, ABPol 2017
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-14392017000800887
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