Currently, high-silica porous glasses (PGs) prepared by the acid leaching of liquated alkali borosilicate glasses are widely used in practice.The influence of the composition of original glasses and conditions of their leaching on the colloidal properties of resultant porous glass membranes was studied in
[1][2][3].The goal of this work is to study the effect of thermal treatment of prepared PGs on their structural (specific surface area, structure resistance coefficient, filtration factor of a liquid, and average pore radius) and electrokinetic (membrane conductivity, ion transport numbers, and electrokinetic potential) characteristics.The objects of this study were membranes prepared from industrial alkali borosilicate glasses 8B and 8V with a two-skeleton structure, as well as from SFP glass produced by the addition of small amounts of fluorine and phosphorus to the original 8B glass. The chemical composition of original glasses characterized in the Laboratory of analytical and inorganic chemistry of the Institute of Silicate Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, is presented in Table 1.
In order to unify the thermal prehistory of the studied glasses, all samples were "homogenized"; i.e., allowed to stand at a temperature about 20-30 ° C higher than that of their liquation and hardened at 550 ° C in air.