Modern industries usually require membrane separation
technologies
to perform well in organic solvent systems; however, typical commercialized
reverse osmosis (RO) membranes often suffer from swelling and instability.
Herein, we proposed a “CCC” post-treatment method to
directly upgrade a traditional RO membrane and extend its potential
application in the deep purification of integrated circuit materials.
This method combines inorganic maifanite particles and organic polymer
adamantane structures, benefiting from the merits of inorganic and
organic materials, to successfully establish a stable mixed matrix
membrane (MMM) structure on a thin-film nanocomposite (TFN) membrane
surface after the CCC post-treatment, involving conditioning, cross-linking,
and curing. The as-prepared TFN membrane was characterized using Fourier
transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy,
energy-dispersive spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and
atomic force microscopy and evaluated using organic solvent RO. This
study offers a new perspective and an effective solution for the separation
of inorganic salts from organic solvents. The as-prepared TFN MMM
was able to separate 99.1% of Li+, 96.8% of Ca2+, 96.9% of Zn2+, and 98.9% of Al3+ from an
organic solvent through simple dead-end filtration with a stable performance
and had a competitive capacity in the purification of lithium carbonate.