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Silver Oxide Nanoparticles-Modified Poly Vinyl Chloride Membranes to Enhance the Antibacterial Properties

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Develop nanocomposite membranes with antibacterial properties and other hydrophilic properties for usage in wastewater treatment. Co-precipitation was used to create nanoparticles of silver oxide (Ag2O), which were then incorporated into polyvinyl chloride (PVC) flat sheet membranes made using the phase inversion procedure. Crystal structure and the production of Ag2O nanoparticles may be confirmed by X-ray diffraction (XRD) investigations, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Attenuated Total Reflection- Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR), Mechanical properties, and contact angle were Sused to characterize both the unmodified membrane and the membrane that had been modified with Ag2O in order to examine the distribution of the nanoparticles of Ag2O within the PVC polymeric solution and the surface properties, thus highlighting the effect of the polymer/filler interfacial interactions. Improving the mechanical and wettability characteristics of the pristine PVC membrane with the insertion of Ag2O nanoparticles is a major contribution of our study. The mechanical strength of the created modified PVC membrane with Ag2O was high, with a young's modulus of 5.5 MPa, while the pristine PVC membrane has a modulus of 3.5 MPa; this is an important characteristic for the application of this type of membrane in a Holding Company of water and wastewater purification. At a permeate water productivity of 3.5 LMH, 92 percent of a target NOC concentration of 50 mg/L of humic acid was removed. Positive antibacterial effects of the modified membranes with Ag2O were observed.

DOI

10.21608/eajbsg.2022.274740

Keywords

Nanoscale Ag2O, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), Antibacterial activity, Membrane filtration, Wastewater treatment

Authors

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Mansor

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S.

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E.

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Water pollution Research Department, Environment and Climate Change Research Institute, National Research Centre, 33 El-Bohouth St. (Former El-Tahrir St.), Dokki, Cairo, Egypt.

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eman_mansor31@yahoo.com

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Egypt

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First Name

Amer

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M.

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A.

Affiliation

Holding Company for Water and Waste Water (HCWW), Qalyuibia, Egypt.

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Egypt

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First Name

Abelsalam

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S.

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S.

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Botany and Microbiology, Department, Faculty of Science, Benha University, Benha, 13518, Egypt.

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Egypt

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First Name

Radwan

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A.

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Holding Company for Water and Waste Water (HCWW), Qalyuibia, Egypt.

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Egypt

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Abdel-Monem

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O.

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M.

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Botany and Microbiology, Department, Faculty of Science, Benha University, Benha, 13518, Egypt.

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Egypt

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Volume

14

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2

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35532

Issue Date

2022-12-01

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2022-09-04

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2022-11-09

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193

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204

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2090-0872

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2090-0880

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Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences, G. Microbiology

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https://eajbsg.journals.ekb.eg/

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Silver Oxide Nanoparticles-Modified Poly Vinyl Chloride Membranes to Enhance the Antibacterial Properties

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22 Jan 2023