“…CardoPES-C 2 -Py was prepared according to the literature. 38 Polyethylene glycol 1000 (PEG1000), hydrochloric acid, ferrous chloride (FeCl 2 , 99.5%), sodium chloride (NaCl, 99.5%), sodium sulfate (Na 2 SO 4 , 99.0%), N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMAc, 99.5%), and other reagents were purchased from Tianjin Kemiou Chemical Reagents Corporation, Ltd., and used as received. Commercial TWDDA3 AEM was supplied by Tianwei Membrane Corporation, Ltd. (Shandong, P. R. China).…”