Disclosed are compositions that may be useful for forming synthetic membranes, methods of forming membranes therefrom, and membranes. In an embodiment, a membrane comprises a free hydrophilic polymer comprising a polyoxazoline, and a polyurethane, the polyurethane comprising a backbone comprising the reaction product of a diisocyanate, a polymeric aliphatic 5 diol, and optionally a chain extender.

A thin micro-porous membrane sheet and filtering device using it is presented. The membrane sheet includes a thin porous metal sheet of thickness between 20 and 200 m with a porous ceramic coating of thickness less than 25 m on at least one of its surfaces. The porous metal sheet has mean pore sizes at micro and sub-micrometer level and has a surface substantially free of pores greater than 10 micrometers. The ceramic coating layer may be made of particles with a mean particle size in a range of 10 to 300 nm and contains certain sintering promoters. The ceramic coating is sintered with the metal sheet in non-oxidizing environment at lower temperatures than typical ceramic membranes. The thin membrane sheet is used to filter fine particulates from micrometers to nanometers from a liquid or gas stream. The thin membrane sheet may be assembled into a filter device having high surface area packing density and straight mini-flow channels.

An acidic gas separation membrane sheet causes an acidic gas to selectively permeate therethrough. The acidic gas separation membrane sheet includes a first porous layer, a hydrophilic resin composition layer, and a second porous layer in this order. A second peel strength between the second porous layer and the hydrophilic resin composition layer is less than a first peel strength between the first porous layer and the hydrophilic resin composition layer. An average value of the second peel strength is within a range of greater than or equal to 5 N/m and less than or equal to 500 N/m.

The present invention relates to a method for preparing an ultrafiltration membrane with high mechanical property. In the present invention, since the cellulose, which has high mechanical property, is added into the casting membrane solution, the retention rate of the ultrafiltration membrane of the present invention is improved.

Described herein is a crosslinked graphene and biopolymer (e.g. lignin) based composite membrane that provides selective resistance for solutes while providing water permeability. The membrane may include optional additional functional additives in a crosslinked material matrix that provides enhanced salt separation from water. Methods for making such membranes, and methods of using the membranes for dehydrating or removing solutes from water are also described.

Provided is a method for forming a carbon film having a uniform thickness at low cost with ease.

Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a carbon film in which a film having carbon as a main component is formed on a support 2 having a predetermined shape, in which the support 2 made of a hydrophilic material is disposed on a base 4 made of a hydrophobic material and a coating liquid 1 obtained by dispersing a carbon material in a polar solvent is supplied onto the support 2 and then dried. Alternatively, the support 2 made of an oleophilic material is disposed on a base 4 made of an oleophobic material and a coating liquid 1 obtained by dispersing a carbon material in a non-polar solvent is supplied onto the support 2 and then dried.

Compositions and processes for fabricating filter units containing carbon-based materials, including but not limited to activated carbon and charcoal powders are disclosed. The powders are embedded within a polymeric porous network, including but not limited to methylcellulose, that is crosslinked with citric acid to create the functioning units. These units can be used to filter out specific molecules from any solution. They can also be allowed to absorb certain molecules and then release these molecules when they are contacted with another solution. The absorption and release of different molecules can be performed simultaneously. By controlling the properties of the polymeric network, such as the chemical properties of the network, the pore sizes and porosity, and the degree of crosslinking, the absorption and release rates of different molecules can be adjusted. In order to selectively control the transport of small molecules with certain sizes, the units can be enclosed in dialysis membranes with different molecular weight cut-offs to limit the size of molecules that can be absorbed and/or filtered by the unit based on their molecular weight.

The present disclosure belongs to the technical field of porous membrane material preparation, and specifically relates to a reverse osmosis composite membrane with an ultrathin desalting layer and a preparation method thereof; the intermediate layer is introduced after modifying the polysulfone base membrane, the modified polysulfone base membrane support layer may strengthen the bonding to the desalting layer through a covalent bond, and the thickness of the desalting layer is reduced to be ?10 nm, so that the desalination rate of the membrane is not greatly affected while increasing the membrane flux. Compared with the membrane having a conventional thickness of the desalting layer, the water flux of the reverse osmosis composite membrane with an ultrathin desalting layer may be increased by about 0.5 times, while the desalination rate has a small change.

Integrating an aquaporin Z protein addition to an outer surface of hollow fiber membranes and a production method of aquaporin Z integrated hollow fiber membranes using different hollow fiber support membranes are provided. The production method includes polymeric, nanocomposite materials. When an aquaporin protein integrated onto reinforced hollow fiber membranes, increase in a mechanical strength and a flux of the reinforced hollow fiber membranes was observed.

The present disclosure relates to a conjugated polyelectrolyte-grafted membrane, which is obtained by fixing a conjugated polyelectrolyte (CPE) capable of generating active oxygen under visible light irradiation to a membrane through crosslinking, and can remove contaminants in water, while reducing bio-fouling on the surface of the membrane, by generating active oxygen through a photocatalytic reaction of the conjugated polyelectrolyte (CPE), as well as to a method for manufacturing the same. The method for manufacturing a conjugated polyelectrolyte-grafted membrane includes the steps of: preparing a conjugated polyelectrolyte (CPE); coating a conjugated polyelectrolyte (CPE) on the surface of a membrane; and carrying out crosslinking of the conjugated polyelectrolyte (CPE) with the surface of the membrane.