Wood-Derived Nanofibrillated Cellulose Hydrogel Filters for Fast and Efficient Separation of Nanoparticles

Yushu Wang; Jialiang Wang; Shengjie Ling; Haiwei Liang; Ming Dai; Lulu Bai; Qing Li; Zhuangjun Fan; Sang Young Lee; Haipeng Yu; Shouxin Liu; Qingwen Wang; Yixing Liu; Jian Li; Tianmeng Sun; Wenshuai Chen

doi:10.1002/adsu.201900063

Wood-Derived Nanofibrillated Cellulose Hydrogel Filters for Fast and Efficient Separation of Nanoparticles

Yushu Wang, Jialiang Wang, Shengjie Ling, Haiwei Liang, Ming Dai, Lulu Bai, Qing Li, Zhuangjun Fan, Sang Young Lee, Haipeng Yu, Shouxin Liu, Qingwen Wang, Yixing Liu, Jian Li, Tianmeng Sun, Wenshuai Chen

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Abstract

Fast water permeable filters with an efficient rejection ratio are desirable for nanoparticle separation and water/air purification. Ultrathin nanoporous filters are effective because of their features, including narrow and tunable pore size distributions capable of handling a high solvent flux. However, it remains challenging to develop antifouling filters that maintain a stable flux with high rejection efficiency over long-term filtration of nanoparticle solutions. Here, a facile and low-cost approach is reported to fabricate biocompatible hydrogel filters with interconnected nanofiber network structures through the use of high aspect ratio, wood-derived nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC). The super-hydrophilia and high porosity of these materials endow the NFC hydrogel filters (NFC-HFs) with high solvent permeance. Nanofibrous networks and interconnected nanoporous structures of NFC-HFs promote efficient rejection and precise size-selective separation of nanoparticles. Specifically, small and irregular nanopores of NFC-HFs fail to match the size of relatively large nanoparticles, which ensures a relatively stable flux of the NFC-HFs over the whole filtration process, even under continuous filtration of highly concentrated nanoparticle solutions.

Original language	English
Article number	1900063
Journal	Advanced Sustainable Systems
Volume	3
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/adsu.201900063
Publication status	Published - 2019 Sept 1

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Y.W. and J.W. contributed equally to this work. This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 31770594, 81422026, and 81571798), the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST (Grant No. 2017QNRC001), the Funds supported by the Fok Ying-Tong Education Foundation, China (Grant No. 161025), the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province, China (Grant No. C2017006), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFA0208100), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 2572018CG01).

Funding Information:
Y.W. and J.W. contributed equally to this work. This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 31770594, 81422026, and 81571798), the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST (Grant No. 2017QNRC001), the Funds supported by the Fok Ying‐Tong Education Foundation, China (Grant No. 161025), the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province, China (Grant No. C2017006), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFA0208100), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 2572018CG01).

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