Effect of electrokinetic property of charged polyether sulfone membrane on bovine serum albumin fouling behavior

doi:10.1007/s11783-017-0907-9

Front. Environ. Sci. Eng.

2017, Vol. 11

Issue (2) : 2 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-017-0907-9

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Effect of electrokinetic property of charged polyether sulfone membrane on bovine serum albumin fouling behavior

Xiaorong Meng¹,Shanshan Huo¹,Lei Wang²(

),Xudong Wang²,Yongtao Lv²,Weiting Tang²,Rui Miao²,Danxi Huang²

¹. School of Science, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710055, China
². School of Environmental & Municipal Engineering, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710055, China

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Abstract

Negatively charged CMPES and positively charged QAPES membranes were fabricated.

Charge modification reduced the adhesion forces between PES UF membranes and BSA.

QAPES-BSA F/R was weaker than that of CMPES-BSA at pH 3 and on the contrary at pH 9.

Flux decline rate was positively correlated with the adhesion forces of membrane-BSA.

Variation of adhesion r₀ was consistent with that of ζ potential absolute values.

Negatively charged carboxymethylated polyethersulfone (CMPES) and positively charged quaternized polyethersulfone (QAPES) ultrafiltration (UF) membranes were prepared by bulk chemical modification and non-solvent induced phase separation method. The effects of PES membrane interfacial electrokinetic property on the bovine serum albumin (BSA) membrane fouling behavior were studied with the aid of the membrane-modified colloidal atomic force microscopy (AFM) probe. Electrokinetic test results indicated that the streaming potential (DE) of QAPES membrane was not consistent with its expected IEC value, however, within the pH range of 3–10, the ζ potentials of two charged-modified PES membranes were more stable than the unmodified membrane. When pH value was 3, 4.7 or 9, the interaction behavior between charged PES membrane and BSA showed that there was significant linear correlation between the jump distance r₀ of membrane-BSA adhesion force (F/R) and the ζ potential absolute value. Charged modification significantly reduced the adhesion of PES membrane-BSA, and the adhesion data was good linear correlated with the flux decline rate in BSA filtration process, especially reflected in the CMPES membrane. The above experimental facts proved that the charged membrane interfacial electric double layer structure and its electrokinetic property had strong ties with the protein membrane fouling behavior.

Keywords Charged PES UF membrane BSA Electrokinetic characterization Adhesion force Jump distance

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Corresponding Author(s): Lei Wang

Issue Date: 20 March 2017

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Xiaorong Meng,Shanshan Huo,Lei Wang, et al. Effect of electrokinetic property of charged polyether sulfone membrane on bovine serum albumin fouling behavior[J]. Front. Environ. Sci. Eng., 2017, 11(2): 2.

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Fig.4 FT-IR spectra of three representative PES UF membranes: (a) PES, (b) QAPES-2, (c) CMPES-2

Fig.5 Surface and cross-section SEM images of five PES UF membranes

Tab.1 Interfacial and structural parameters of charged PES UF membranes

Fig.6 Electrokinetic characterization of five PES membranes: (a) streaming potential as a function of pressure and (b) ζ potential as a function of pH (KCl concentration: 3 mmol·L^-¹, T=25℃, pH=3; ΔP =0.03 MPa)

Fig.7 Electrical double layer structure and electrokinetic property of three membranes

Fig.8 Normalized flux decline curves for BSA solution as a function of time at different pH values (Experimental conditions: applied pressure, 0.1 MPa; test temperature, 25℃) (a) pH=3, (b) pH=4.7, and (c) pH=9

Fig.9 Adhesion forces of BSA on PES, CMPES, QAPES UF membranes ((a) pH=3, (b) pH=4.7, and (c) pH=9) and the corresponding frequency distributions of F/R ((d) pH=3, (e) pH=4.7, and (f) pH=9) at different pH values

Fig.10 Linear correlations analyses: (a) adhesion force (F/R) of membrane-BSA and normalized flux decline rate (Δ(J/J₀)/t) during the initial 1 h filtration and (b) the jump distance r₀of F/R and ζ potential at pH 3, 4.7, 9

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