The present paper aims to study the preparation of polyaniline nanofibers through simple interfacial polymerization. Ammonium persulfate, hydrochloric acid and chloroform were used as oxidant, dopant and organic solvent respectively. Field Emission S...
This work applies a multi-scale approach to the microencapsulation by interfacial polymerization. Such microencapsulation is used to produce fertilizers, pesticides and drugs. In this study, variations at three different scales (molecular, microscopi...
The deepening crisis of freshwater resources has been driving the further development of new types of membrane-based desalination technologies represented by nanofiltration membranes. Solving the existing trade-off limitation on enhancing the water p...
Hollow fiber (HF) organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN) membranes have recently attracted significant interest in the field of membrane technology. Their popularity stems from comparative advantages, such as high packing density, fouling resistance, a...
Photochromic materials are interesting materials because of their color-changing property under UV light and visible light irradiation. However, they are vulnerable to many factors, such as pH oxygen, ion, solvent, etc. because of the unsaturated bon...
Ultrathin and smooth polyamide (PA) reverse osmosis (RO) membranes have attracted significant interest due to their potential advantages of high permeance and low fouling propensity. Although a layered interfacial polymerization (LIP) technique aided...
The interfacial polymerization of fluorine-containing polyarylates (F-PAR) represents an important synthetic route for advanced polymeric materials. This work presents a comprehensive mechanistic investigation through integrated kinetic analysis and...
Nanofiltration membranes are of great significance to the treatment of dye wastewater. Interfacial polymerization is a widely used method to fabricate nanofiltration membranes. In this study, the interaction of tannic acid-assisted polyethylene polya...
Interfacial polymerization (IP) has been widely utilized to synthesize composite membranes. However, precise control of this reaction remains a challenge due to the complexity of the IP process. Herein, an optical three-dimensional microscope was use...
Nanofiltration membranes have evolved as a promising solution to tackle the clean water scarcity and wastewater treatment processes with their low energy requirement and environment friendly operating conditions. Thin film composite nanofiltration me...
The rapid development of the global energy industry has driven an escalating worldwide demand for lithium resources. As a major lithium source, salt lake brines contain abundant divalent ions that hinder efficient lithium extraction. Compared with co...
Polyamide microcapsules have gathered significant research interest during the past years due to their good barrier properties; however, the potential of their application is limited due to the fragility of the polymeric membrane. Fully aliphatic pol...
In this work, thin-film composite polyamide membranes were fabricated using triethylenetetramine (TETA) and trimesoyl chloride (TMC) following the vacuum-assisted interfacial polymerization (VAIP) method for the pervaporation (PV) dehydration of aque...
Morphological characteristics of any nanomaterial are critical in defining its properties. In this context, a method to control morphological parameters of polyaniline (PANI) has been investigated by producing its composite with gold nanoparticles (A...
A thin-film composite (TFC) polyurea membrane was fabricated for the dehydration of an aqueous tetrahydrofuran (THF) solution through interfacial polymerization, wherein polyethyleneimine (a water-soluble amine monomer) and m-xylene diisocyanate (an...
The large-scale application of aromatic polyamide (PA) thin-film composite (TFC) membranes for reverse osmosis has provided an effective way to address worldwide water scarcity. However, the water permeability and salt rejection capabilities of the P...
Interfacial polymerization (IP) has been the key method for the fabrication of the thin film composite (TFC) membranes that are extensively employed in reverse osmosis (RO) and forward osmosis (FO). However, the role of the substrate surface hydrophi...
To address the issue of metal corrosion caused by microcracks in the coating on the steel structures of offshore drilling platforms, this study employs interfacial polymerization to prepare microcapsules with self-healing functionality for coatings....
This study revealed the effects of incorporating ionic liquid (IL) molecules: 1-ethyl, 1-butyl, and 1-octyl-3-methyl-imidazolium chlorides with different alkyl chain lengths, in interfacial polymerization (IP) on the structure and property (i.e., per...
In a single-step spinning process, we create a thin-walled, robust hollow fiber support made of Torlon® polyamide-imide featuring an intermediate polyethyleneimine (PEI) lumen layer to facilitate the integration and covalent attachment of a dense sel...
The use of electroactive polyaniline (PANI) as an electrode material for a symmetric supercapacitor has been reported. The material was synthesized via interfacial polymerization, using ammonium per sulfate, dodecylbenzene sulfonic acid (DBSA), and g...
The type of organic solvents used in interfacial polymerization affects the surface property, free volume, and separation performance of the thin-film composite (TFC) polyamide membrane. In this study, TFC polyamide membrane was fabricated through in...
The objective of this research is to prepare and characterize a new and highly efficient polyamide TFC RO membrane by interfacial polymerization in dodecane solvent mixed with co-solvents. Three co-solvents were tested namely; acetone, ethyl acetate,...
P-nitrophenol (PNP), a refractory hazardous substance, has not been efficiently utilized so far. In this paper, PNP is used as a membrane modification material for preparing poly(amide-co-ester) composite nanofiltration membrane. An organic solvent n...
Thin film composite (TFC) membranes is the dominant type of desalination in the field of membrane technology. Most of the TFC membranes are fabricated via interfacial polymerization (IP) technique. The ingenious chemistry of reacting acyl chlorides w...
Polyurea (PU) nano-capsules have received voluminous interest in various fields due to their biocompatibility, high mechanical properties, and surface functionality. By incorporating magnetic nanoparticle (MNPs) into the polyurea system, the attribut...
Nanofiltration (NF) is considered a competitive purification method for acidic stream treatments. However, conventional thin-film composite NF membranes degrade under acid exposures, limiting their applications in industrial acid treatment. For examp...
A novel and interesting method for the preparation of carboxymethylcellulose–polyaniline film-supported copper catalyst (CuII/I@CMC-PANI) has been developed via spray-assisted interfacial polymerization. Using copper sulfate as an initiator, sp...
Thin-film composite (TFC) polyamide membranes formed through interfacial polymerization can function more efficiently by tuning the chemical structure of participating monomers. Accordingly, three kinds of diamine monomers were considered to take par...
In this paper, we review various novel/modified interfacial polymerization (IP) techniques for the fabrication of polyamide (PA) thin film composite (TFC)/thin film nanocomposite (TFN) membranes in both pressure-driven and osmotically driven separati...
The interfacial polymerization (IP) of piperazine (PIP) and trimesoyl chloride (TMC) has been extensively utilized to synthesize nanofiltration (NF) membranes. However, it is still a huge challenge to monitor the IP reaction, because of the fast reac...
To model the rates of interfacial polycondensations, the rates of reaction of benzoyl chloride and methyl chloroformate with various aliphatic monoamines in acetonitrile were determined at 25 °C. Buffering with picric acid slowed these extremely fast...
The millimeter-scale capsules for oil encapsulation have been used successfully in food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical engineering. However, aqueous core capsules still have poor barrier properties and a short storage life. In this work, a rapid and mi...
To recover dimethyl sulfoxide, an organic solvent nanofiltration membrane is prepared via the interfacial polymerization method. N-Phenylthiourea (NP)is applied as a water-soluble monomer, reacted with trimesoyl chloride (TMC) on the polyetherimide s...
The stretchable sensor has been considered as the most important component in a wearable device. However, it is still a great challenge to develop a highly sensitive textile-based strain sensor with good flexibility, excellent skin affinity, and larg...
The self-healing system based on microencapsulated epoxy-amine chemistry is currently the self-healing system with the most practical application potential. It can be widely used in many epoxy-based materials with a size restriction for the microcaps...
Correlations between conditions of the polyaniline (PANI) interlayer formation on the surface of a polysulfone (PSF) porous membrane substrate and the structure and performance of thin-film composite (TFC) membranes for nanofiltration with a polyamid...
In the preparation of microencapsulated phase change materials (MicroPCMs) with a three-composition shell through interfacial polymerization, the particle size, phase change behaviors, core contents, encapsulation efficiency morphology, thermal stabi...
Fabrication of high-dye/salt-separation-performances and chlorine-resistant nanofiltration (NF) membranes are crucial for dye desalination. In this study, a thin-film composite NF membrane (PES–DPS) was prepared through the interfacial polymeri...
Novel high-quality thin film nanocomposite (TFN) membranes for enhanced forward osmosis (FO) were first synthesized through organic phase controlled interfacial polymerization by utilizing functional multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs). As 3-amino...
Polymeric composite materials attracted attention when pristine polymers alone could not fulfill the necessity of high-performance functional materials for wide applications. Mixing two or more polymers (blends) together or compositing the polymers w...
Polymeric stabilizers play a critical role in enhancing the stability and performance of firefighting foams. This study evaluated the influence of three polymeric stabilizers (xanthan gum, XG; polyacrylamide, PAM; sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, CMC-...
Butyl stearate and polyurea resin polymerized via toluene-2, 4-diisocyanate (TDI) and diethylene triamine (DETA) were respectively used as the core material and the shell material in preparing MicroPCMs. The phase change properties, chemical structur...
In carbonate petroleum reservoirs, permeability impairment caused by asphaltene precipitation and deposition remains a major challenge that limits long-term productivity. This study introduces a green polymeric nanocomposite (KCl/SiO2/Xanthan/Origanu...
Limited ionic conductivity and unstable interfaces, primarily caused by poor solid–solid contact, pose significant challenges to the stable cycling of solid-state batteries. In this study, an interfacial in situ polymerization strategy is propo...
Organic phase-change materials (PCMs) hold promise in developing advanced thermoregulation and responsive energy systems owing to their high latent heat capacity and thermal reliability. However, organic PCMs are prone to leakages in the liquid state...
(2-((1-(4-chlorophenyl)-1H-pyrazol-3-yl)oxy)-N-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-propanamide) is a new oil-soluble compound with good fungicidal activity against Rhizoctonia solani. Chitosan oligosaccharide (COS) is the depolymerization product of chitosan and ca...
Thin-film composite mixed matrix membranes (CMMMs) were fabricated using interfacial polymerization to achieve high permeance and selectivity for CO2 separation. This study revealed the role of substrate properties on performance, which are not typic...
Polymeric hole-transport materials (HTMs) play a pivotal role in improving the efficiency, stability, and scalability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Owing to their structural tunability, polymeric HTMs enable effective control over energy-level al...
Ethylhexyl methoxycinnamate (EHMC) is frequently employed as a photoprotective agent in sunscreen formulations. EHMC has been found to potentially contribute to health complications as a result of its propensity to produce irritation and permeate the...
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