Bioinspired synthesis of high-performance nanocomposite imprinted membrane by a polydopamine-assisted metal-organic method

Yilin Wu, Xinlin Liu, Jiuyun Cui, Minjia Meng, Jiangdong Dai, Chunxiang Li, Yongsheng Yan

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Abstract

Significant efforts have been focused on the functionalization and simplification of membrane-associated molecularly imprinted materials, which can rapidly recognize and separate specific compound. However, issues such as low permselectivity and unstable composite structures are restricting it from developing stage to a higher level. In this work, with the bioinspired design of polydopamine (pDA)-assisted inorganic film, we present a novel molecular imprinting strategy to integrate multilevel nanocomposites (Ag/pDA) into the porous membrane structure. The molecularly imprinted nanocomposite membranes were then obtained through an in situ photoinitiated ATRP method by using tetracycline (TC) as the template molecule. Importantly, attributing to the formation of the Ag/pDA-based TC-imprinted layers, largely enhance TC-rebinding capacity (35.41 mg/g), adsorption selectivity and structural stability (still maintained 92.1% of the maximum adsorption capacity after 10 cycling operations) could been easily achieved. Moreover, largely enhanced permselectivity performance toward template molecule (the permeability factor β values were also more than 5.95) was also obtained. Finally, all synthesis methods were conducted in aqueous solution at ambient temperature, which was environmental friendly for scaling up without causing pollution.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)663-673
Number of pages11
JournalJournal of Hazardous Materials
Volume323
DOIs
StatePublished - 5 Feb 2017
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Bioinspired nanocomposite synthesis
  • Molecularly imprinted membrane
  • Selective recognition and separation
  • TC

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