ISSN:
0021-8995
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Polymer and Materials Science
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
,
Physics
Notes:
To improve the performance of nylon 4 membranes, this study attempts to utilize chemical initiation which induces different hydrophilicities vinyl monomers grafted onto nylon 4 membranes. Sodium styrene sulfonate, chloromethyl styrene, styrene, and glycidyl methacrylate were used as grafting monomers. The factors that affect the degree of grafting considered were chemical initiators, pH values, kinds and concentrations of monomers, reaction time, and temperatures. The mechanical strength and the transport properties of these chemical-initiated grafted nylon 4 membranes were also investigated. Both the water flux and the salt rejection of sodium styrene sulfonated-grafted membrane were increased significantly, compared to our previous paper,1 and the casein rejections of all of the four grafted nylon 4 membranes studied exceeded 90%. The quaternized nylon 4-g-poly(chloromethyl styrene) membranes were prepared and possessed high water uptake behavior and high transfer number (0.99) for electrodialysis. The sulfonating process was also applied to improve the hydrophilicity of nylon 4-g-poly(glycidyl methacrylate) membrane so that the water flux and the salt rejection were both increased.
Additional Material:
8 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/app.1988.070360108
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