Water-Assisted Programmable Assembly of Flexible and Self-Standing Janus Membranes

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Janus membranes with asymmetric wettability have been considered cutting-edge for energy/environmental-sustainable applications like water/fog harvester, breathable skin, and smart sensor; however, technical challenges in fabrication and accurate regulation of asymmetric wettability limit their development. Herein, by using water-assisted hydrogen-bonded (H-bonded) assembly of small molecules at water/oil interface, a facile strategy is proposed for one-step fabrication of membranes with well-regulable asymmetric wettability. Asymmetric orderly patterns, beneficial for mass transport based on abundant high-permeability sites and large surface area, are constructed on opposite membrane surfaces. Upon tuning water-assisted H-bonding via H-sites/configuration design and temperature/pH modulation, double-hydrophobic, double-hydrophilic, and hydrophobic-hydrophilic membranes are facilely fabricated. The Janus membranes show smart vapor-responsive curling and unidirectional water transport with promising flux of 1158±25 L m-2  h-1 under natural gravity and 31500±670 L·(m-2  h-1  bar-1 ) at negative pressure. This bottom-up approach offers a feasible-to-scalable avenue to precise-manipulation of Janus membranes for advanced applications, providing an effective pathway for developing tailor-made self-assembled nanomaterials.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

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Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) - 10(2023), 35 vom: 18. Dez., Seite e2305239

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yi, Qun [VerfasserIn]
Qiu, Mingyue [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Xiaoyu [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Haonan [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Yi [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Hongxue [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Tielin [VerfasserIn]
Nimmo, William [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Tian [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Lijuan [VerfasserIn]
Zeng, Hongbo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

H-bonded assembly
Janus membrane
Journal Article
Unidirectional water transport
Vapor response

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Date Revised 18.12.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/advs.202305239

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM363676538