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Dual-Bioinspired Design for Constructing Membranes with Superhydrophobicity for Direct Contact Membrane Distillation Zhigao Zhu, Yuanren Liu, Haoqing Hou, Wenxin Shi, Fangshu Qu, Fuyi Cui, and Wei Wang Environ. Sci. Technol., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b06227 • Publication Date (Web): 01 Feb 2018 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on February 1, 2018

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Environmental Science & Technology

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Dual-Bioinspired Design for Constructing Membranes with

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Superhydrophobicity for Direct Contact Membrane Distillation

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Zhigao Zhua, Yuanren Liua, Haoqing Houb, Wenxin Shia, Fangshu Qua, Fuyi Cuia, Wei

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Wanga,*

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School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, P. R. China

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State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment (SKLUWRE),

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangxi Normal University,

Nanchang 330022, P. R. China

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*Corresponding

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Email address: [email protected] (W. Wang)

Author

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ACS Paragon Plus Environment


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ABSTRACT: Water flux and durability are the two critical parameters that closely

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associated with the practical application of membrane distillation (MD). Herein, we

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report a facile approach to fabricate superhydrophobic polyimide nanofibrous

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membranes (PI NFMs) with hierarchical structures, interconnected pores and high

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porosity, which was derived from the electrospinning, dual-bioinspired design and

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fluorination

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polydopamine/polyethyleneimine (PDA/PEI) composite was firstly linked onto

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membrane substrates, and then assembled lotus leaf hierarchical structure by binding

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the negatively charged silica nanoparticles (SiO2 NPs) via electrostatic attraction. The

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resultant superhydrophobic PI NFMs exhibits a water contact angle of 152o, robust

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hot water resistance of 85 oC and high water entry pressure of 42 kPa. Moreover, the

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membrane with omniphobicity presents high water flux over 31 L m-2 h-1 and high

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salts rejection of ~100% as well as robust durability for treating high salinity

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wastewater containing typical low surface tension and dissolved contaminants

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(∆T=40 oC). Significantly, the novel dual-bioinspired method can be used as a

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universal tool to modify various materials with hierarchical structures, which is

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expected to provide more effective alternative membranes for MD and even for other

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selective wetting separation fields.

processes.

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INTRODUCTION

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The ever-increasing geographical inequalities and deterioration of water quality

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impose an urgent task to develop appropriate technologies for wastewater treatment

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and make good utilization of abundant seawater resources.1-4 Among various

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technologies, membrane distillation (MD) using a hydrophobic microporous

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membrane has emerged as a promising method because it can utilize low-grade or

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waste heat to generate high-quality water with high recovery and high rejection of

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salts (100% in theory).5-7 MD is driven by a vapor pressure gradient induced by the

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different temperatures between a hot feed stream and a cold collected stream. The

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hydrophobic membrane aims at resisting the permeation of water droplets and

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allowing the transmission of water vapor, thus achieving the purpose of purification of

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seawater or treatment of wastewater.8

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Water flux and durability are the two critical parameters that closely associated

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with the practical application of MD for seawater desalination and wastewater

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treatment.9 Water flux is highly determined by the porous structure of the hydrophobic

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membrane.10-12 Various methods including mechanical fibrillation, template and melt

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blown, phase inversion as well as electrospinning methods have been employed to

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fabricate microporous membranes.13-16 It has been well-recognized that high porosity,

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narrow pore size distribution and low tortuosity structure can maximum increase the

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water vapor transmission.17-18 Durability of the MD membrane is another crucial issue,

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which is highly related to the hydrophobicity of membranes.19 An increase in

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hydrophobicity would slow the rate of crack formation and the capillary attraction of 3



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the water into the pore, thus reducing the surface pore wetting and wicking and

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maintaining the MD membrane stability.19 Some commercial hydrophobic

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microfiltration membranes were firstly used for MD, but most of them are generally

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suboptimal and suffer from progressive membrane wetting in the MD process.20 In

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recent years, two other methods have been developed for the design of

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superhydrophobic membranes. Both of them are based on the roughness construction

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and grafting or mixing with low surface energy materials. The first one is that the

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nanoparticles and hydrophobic agent was directly mixed with the as-prepared

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solutions for membrane preparation, but most nanoparticles embedded in the

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membrane matrix greatly reduced the utilization of nanoparticles for roughness

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construction.21-22 Moreover, the existence of wrinkles, nano-protrusions and

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nanoparticles may become the flaws of microporous membranes, thus deteriorating

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their physical and chemical properties.23-24 The second one is post treatment strategy

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for superhydrophobic surface modification of membrane.25 For example, polymer

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porous membrane was firstly etched by chemicals to form reactive functional groups,

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then served as substrates to construct membrane roughness.26-27 During the above

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processes, the structure of polymeric substrates, to some extent, were destroyed, and

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then affect the physical robustness of the MD membrane. Thus, it still requires a green

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method that can construct MD membrane with robust interconnected porous structure

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and excellent durability for MD performance.

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Electrospun nanofibrous membranes constructing from randomly accumulation

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of nanofibers leaded to an interconnected porous structure.28-30 Therefore, the 4


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electrospun products with high porosity have potential application in MD process due

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to ease transmission of water vapor across the hydrophobic membranes.18,31 Various

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chemical/coating methods have been used to construct nanofibrous membranes with

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roughness, but most of them are subjected to the damage of membrane as mentioned

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above. Recently, inspired by the unique adhesion and wettability of mussels in nature,

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polydopamine (PDA) containing catechol can serve as either the starting points or

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covalent modification with desired molecules during the in situ polymerization

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process.32-34 The coating layer can inspire the membrane surface with functional

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groups without destroying the substrate. In our design, dopamine plays

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dual-functional roles as both the adhesive and the starting points to graft positively

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charged PEI.35,36 After that, the positively charged nanofibrous membrane can

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uniformly and compactly bind the negatively charged SiO2 NPs with excellent

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stability via electrostatic attraction. However, the studies on fabrication of such

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dual-bioinspired membranes with hierarchical roughness for MD or selective wetting

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membrane are rather scarce.

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Inspired by the mussel adhesive protein chemistry and lotus leaf hierarchical

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structure (Figure 1 (a & b)), we presented a universal method to modify materials

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with hierarchical structures without destroying the properties of the parent material

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structure. PI (polyimide), a traditional special engineering plastic, exhibits superior

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thermal stability, high mechanical property as well as good hydrophobic

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performance.37 Significantly, the excellent chemical resistance of PI plays key roles in

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desalination or wastewater treatment.38 As a result, we rationally designed a 5



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superhydrophobic PI nanofibrous membrane (PI NFMs) via electrospinning technique,

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electrostatic attraction and low surface energy modification. The detailed procedures

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are shown in Figure 1c. The resultant interconnected porous structured membrane

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presents superhydrophobic surface with a water contact angle (WCA) of 152o and

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robust hot water resistance by simply turning the concentrations of colloidal SiO2. In

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addition, the superhydrophobic nanofibrous membrane exhibited a high water entry

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pressure of 42 kPa, which is finely fitted with the theoretical value calculating from

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Young-Laplace equation. Ultimately, the superhydrophobic membranes demonstrated

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a stable performance for treating high salinity wastewater containing typical low

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surface tension and dissolved contaminants, which would be an appropriate candidate

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for MD membrane especially for multi-component salinity wastewater purification.

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Most importantly, the green dual-bioinspired method can be used as a universal

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method for designing materials with roughness construction, demonstrating the

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potential applications in various selective separations.

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Figure 1 (a) The in situ polymerization of DA and PEI. (b) Photograph and FE-SEM 6


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images of Lotus leaf. (c) Schematic illustrating the procedures for preparation of

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superhydrophobic PI NFMs with a lotus-leaf-like structure; the photographs showing

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the large-scale PI nanofibrous membrane.

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MATERIALS AND METHODS

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Materials. 4,4'-oxydianiline (ODA), pyromellitic dianhydride (PMDA), trimethoxy

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(heptadecafluorotetrahydrodecyl)-triethoxysilane

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(DMAc) were purchased from Aladdin Chemical Regent Company. Dopamine (DA),

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polyethyleneimine (PEI, Mw=600), methylene blue (MeB), ethanol (99 wt%), and

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sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate (SDBS) were purchased from Shanghai Runjie

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Chemical Reagent Company, China. Silica nanoparticles with an effective surface

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area of 198-250 m2/g (Ludox SM, 30 wt%) was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich

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Company. Sodium hydroxide (NaOH) and hydrochloric (HCl) were purchased from

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Xilong Chemical Company, China. Sodium chloride (NaCl), potassium chloride

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(KCl), magnesium chloride (MgCl2), magnesium sulfate (MgSO4), calcium sulfate

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(CaSO4) were purchased from Tianjin Benchmark Chemical Reagent Company, China.

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The crude oil and the soya-bean oil were obtained from the 5th Daqing oil Production

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Factory and Jiusan Oils & Grains Industries Group Co., Ltd, respectively. The

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lubricating oil (L-DVB) was purchased from Japan Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Co.,

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Ltd. The commercial PTFE and PVDF membrane were purchased from Haining

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Lianzhong Filter Equipment Technology Co., Ltd, and Merck Millipore, respectively.

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All chemicals were used as received without further purification.

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Preparation of PI Nanofibrous Membranes. The pristine poly (amic acid) (PAA)

(FAS),

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solution was synthesized using PMDA and ODA through polycondensation

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reaction.39 Generally, 2.7 g of PMDA and 2.7g of ODA were dissolved in 24.6 g of

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DMAc solution with continuously stirring at 0 oC for 12 h. The PAA NFMs was

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fabricated via electrospinning using the pristine PAA solution with the solid content

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of 18 wt%. Typically, 10 mL of PAA solution was loaded in a syringe at a fixed

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voltage of 15 kV and a feed rate of 0.25 mL h-1 with a work distance of 20 cm

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between tip of the needle and the collector. The fabrication chamber temperature and

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humidity were fixed at 23±1 oC and 45±3%, respectively. All the collected

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electrospun nanofibrous membranes were dried at 60 oC in a vacuum for 3 h to

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remove the residual solvent and then thermally imidized to obtain PI nanofibers

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heating up at a rate of 5 oC min-1 to 100, 200 and 300 oC at each temperature stage for

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30 min.

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Surface Modification of PI NFMs. The PI NFMs was modified with aqueous

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solution of DA (2 mg mL-1) and PEI (6 mg mL-1) in l0 mM Tris-buffer.36 The DA/PEI

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solution was stirred at room temperature for 24 h in order to perfectly cover the PI

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nanofiber with core-shell structure. The PI NFMs after PDA/PEI modification were

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rinsed thoroughly with deionized water at least three times, following dried in a

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vacuum oven at 50 °C for 6 h. The positively charged PI NFMs was then immersed in

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various concentrations of Ludox SM for 3 h in acetate buffer with an ionic strength of

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~1 mM. The pH of the suspension was adjusted to 4.5 to accelerate the electrostatic

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attraction between the positively charged PI nanofibers and the negatively charged

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SiO2 NPs. After the SiO2 NPs were successfully anchored on the PI nanofibers 8


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surface, the composite membrane was then immersed in 1 wt% of FAS in ethanol

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solution for 12 h to low the membrane surface energy. After that, the fluorinated

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SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI NFMs were subjected to heat treatment at 120 oC for 2 h.

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Characterization. The morphologies of fibers were observed by a field emission

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scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM) (Zeiss SUPRA 55 SAPPHIRE) and

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transmission electron microscopy (TEM) (JEM-2100F, JEOL Ltd). The elemental

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compositions of the membranes were investigated by Fourier transform infrared

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(FT-IR) spectra with attenuated total reflectance (ATR) (PerkinElmer Spectrum). Zeta

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potential of membranes surface were evaluated by a streaming potential analyzer

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using streaming current measurements (SurPASS, Anton Paar GmbH, Australia).

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Measurements were performed with a solution containing 1 mmol/L KCl. The

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near-surface chemical information of the materials was analyzed by X-ray

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photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS, K-Alpha, Al Kα radiation). The surface area of the

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samples was derived from N2 sorption measurements using an automatic micropore

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physisorption analyzer (Tristar 3020, USA). The pore size distribution was

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characterized via a bubble point method using a capillary flow porometer

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(CFP-1100ai, Porous Materials InC., USA). The mechanical property of relevant

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samples was performed on a tensile tester (XQ-1C, Shanghai New Fiber Instrument

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Co., Ltd., China). Water contact angles (WCAs) of 3 µL were performed using a

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contact angle goniometer (Kino SL200B). The liquid entry pressure was measured

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using a capillary flow porometer (POROLUX 1000, Germany). The surface

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roughness of single fibers were measured by atomic force microscope with a scan 9



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area of 1 µm ×1 µm (AFM, Nanoscope Ⅳ, Digital instruments).

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MD Performance Tests. The membrane performances were tested using a lab-scale

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direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) system with an effective membrane

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area of 16 cm2 as shown in Figure S1. The feed and permeate solution were cycled

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through the flat-sheet membrane cell. The feed solutions were prepared with various

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concentrations of salinity water and operated at desired temperatures. The simulated

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reverse osmosis concentrated water was composed of 32.61 g/L of NaCl, 1.03 g/L of

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KCl, 4.52 g/L of MgCl, 2.91 g/L of MgSO4 and 1.80 g/L of CaSO4. Meanwhile, the

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temperature of cold permeate side was always fixed at 20 oC with a conductivity

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below 5 µS/cm circling by a peristaltic pump.

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RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

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Figure 2 (a) Zeta potential as a function of pH of colloidal silica and PI NFMs

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modified by PDA and PDA/PEI, respectively. (b) ATR-FTIR spectra and (c-f) TEM

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images

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F-SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI NFMs. (h) FE-SEM and (i) AFM images of single nanofiber of

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F-SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI, respectively. (j) Cross-section image of F-SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI

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NFMs.

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Surface Properties and Morphologies of Modified Nanofibrous Membrane. To

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obtain a superhydrophobic membrane surface for durable MD with high water flux

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and salt rejection, hierarchical roughness and surface chemistry are the two crucial

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factors in determining the anti-wetting characteristic.40,41 In the present work, SiO2

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NPs were used to decorate PI nanofibers with uniform roughness because the SiO2

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NPs with abundance hydroxyl functional groups allow surface fluorination via

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well-established silane chemistry.6,42 Electrostatic attraction has been considered as

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one of the best ways to uniform disperses SiO2 NPs onto the nanofiber surface owing

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to its ease of operation and perfect uniform dispersion. However, both the PI NFMs

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and SiO2 NPs possess negative surface charge in the pH values ranging from 3 to 11,

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which were monitored by zeta potential as shown in Figure 2a. In order to obtain the

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positively charged membrane, the PI membrane was firstly modified by in situ

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polymerization of DA/PEI to generate positive amine functional groups. The

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PDA/PEI@PI NFMs exhibited a superhydrophilic surface with a water contact angle

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of 0o, and increased the positive zeta potential of the PI NFMs with an extrapolated

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isoelectric points of～6.5 mV. Mechanism for the in situ polymerization of DA/PEI is

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well clarified in our previous study as shown in Figure 1a.36 For comparison, the PDA

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coated PI NFMs was found still to be negatively charged in the entire pH range

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because the as-prepared PI NFMs prepared from electrospinning technique was more

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Fortunately, during the polymerization of DA, the catechol of DA can serve as the

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starting points to crosslink with PEI. Thus, the modified PI NFMs with positive

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charge coating (PDA/PEI) can bind the negatively charged SiO2 NPs via electrostatic

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attraction, and then graft FAS to low the surface energy of the nanofibrous

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membranes.6,42

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The surface modification of PI NFMs with PDA/PEI, SiO2 NPs and FAS were

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measured by attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR)

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spectroscopy measurement and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) as shown in

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Figure 2b and Figure S2. The formation of covalent bonds between catechol moieties

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of PDA and amines of PEI through Michael addition reaction can also remarkably

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enhance the acid resistance in the following roughness construction in acid condition

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(pH=4). FT-IR and XPS analyses for the polymerization of DA/PEI are shown in

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Figure 2b and Figure S2. After the electrostatic attraction with SiO2 NPs, a new peak

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rose at 1110 cm-1 was assigned to silanol groups of SiO2 NPs.27 In addition, the

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surface fluorination of SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI NFMs could also be confirmed by the

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enhanced absorbance intensity at 1140 cm-1, corresponding to -CF2 symmetric

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stretching mode.27

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The morphologies of single PI nanofiber and nanofibrous membrane treated at

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different stages were monitored by TEM and FE-SEM images as shown in Figure

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2(c-g) and Figure S(3 & 4). All the nanofibers oriented randomly with high aspect

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ratio, which constructed the 3-dimensional network structure. The macropores could

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be served as interconnected passageways for vapor transfer and limit water from 12


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permeation. After PDA/PEI coating, the average diameters of PDA/PEI@PI nanofiber

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was increased to 375±25 nm as shown in Figure S5, a thickness of～38 nm of

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PDA/PEI layer could be observed (Figure 2d) compared with single PI nanofiber

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(Figure 2c).

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NFMs because the interaction between catechol groups of PEI and the amino group of

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DA can effectively suppress the PDA aggregation.36 After electrostatic attraction, the

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dense SiO2 NPs are uniformly and compactly anchored on the fiber surface without

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flaws, as shown in Figure 2(e & f), which is a key factor in determining the membrane

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durability because the flaws resulting from the uneven nanoparticles on membrane

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substrate give opportunities for water permeation after long-term operation.19

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Meanwhile, the fiber diameter was sharply increased to 470±35 nm (Figure S3 & 5),

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demonstrating the SiO2 NPs with multilevel structure successfully decorated onto the

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PI fiber surface. In addition, the roughness of fiber surface was greatly increased from

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3.56 to 31.75 nm as shown in Figure 2(h & i) and Figure S6. Significantly, the

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interaction between SiO2 NPs and the fiber surface was very strong and no visible

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changes were observed regarding the fiber morphology after 1 h sonication treatments

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with a power of 150 W (Figure S7). This demonstrates the electrostatic attraction

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method between positive PDA/PEI and negative SiO2 for roughness construction

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shows robust stability. The cross-section images of PI nanofibrous membrane and

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relevant single nanofiber treated at different stages are shown in Figure 2j and Figure

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S8, revealing the nanofibers accumulated layer by layer constructed the

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interconnected porous structures. The treated membrane also exhibited denser than the

Most importantly, the PDA/PEI layer was uniformly coated on the PI

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as-prepared PI nanofibrous membrane due to the crosslinking of fibers as shown in

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Figure S3b. The membrane surface with and without SiO2 NPs after fluorination did

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not affect the surface morphologies and fiber diameters as shown in Figure S(3d & 4).

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Furthermore, the average thickness of PI, PDA/PEI@PI, SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI and

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F-SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI NFMs are 81±3, 91±2, 102±3 and 105±4 µm, respectively,

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which was due to the increased thickness of the bottom and top layer after PDA/PEI

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coating and SiO2 NPs decoration. The increased thickness was also in accordance

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with the diameter changes.

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Figure 3 (a) N2 ad/desorption, pore size distribution and (c) stress-strain curves of PI,

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PDA/PEI@PI, SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI and F-SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI NFMs, respectively.

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Membrane Specific Surface Area, Pore Size Distribution and Mechanical

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Strength Analyses. The unique introduction of SiO2 NPs created the pristine PI fiber

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surface with hierarchical roughness, thus dramatically increased the effective surface

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area. Therefore, N2 ad/desorption isotherms as shown in Figure 3a reveal a typical-IV

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isotherms, indicating the presence of open mesopores and macrospores.43 The

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mesopores and macrospores are mainly coming from the SiO2 NPs with mesopores in

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nature and the stacking of PI nanofibers. The surface area of the as-prepared PI,

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PDA/PEI@PI, SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI and F-SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI NFMs are 7.32, 6.18,

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27.30 and 25.22 m2 g-1, respectively, demonstrating the major contribution role of 14


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SiO2 NPs in determing the specific surface area and roughness structure, which was in

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aggrement with the FE-SEM image results (Figure S3). Figure 3b gives typical pore

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size distributions of PI, PDA/PEI@PI, SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI and F-SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI

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NFMs measured through a bubble point method using a capillary flow porometer. It is

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worth noting that the pore size distribution of all the relevant membranes was shown

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in the range from 1.5 to 4 µm, and the average pore size gradually decreased from

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2.65 to 2.23 µm. The decrease in pore size distribution of PI NFMs could be attributed

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to that the layer by layer modification gradually narrowed the average pore size

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distributions. The mechanical strength of relevant nanofibrous membranes was also

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measured as shown in Figure 3c. Before broken, all the samples exhibited a nonlinear

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elastic deformation in the first region (0 to 25%) under a stress load, and then the

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stress-strain curves displayed a quasi linear plastic behavior until breakage.

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Interestingly, the mehanical strength and the tensile strain were increased to 321±22

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cN and 50.48 %, respectively. The PDA/PEI used as the positively charged adhesive

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have the functionality to adhere the fiber points, which slightly enhanced the

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mechanical strength and tensile strain. After the roughness construction and

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fluorination, the stress was slightly decreasd to 290±16 and 277±21 cN, which could

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be attributed to that the hydrophilic SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI NFMs displays slight

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swelling.36

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Figure 4 (a) WCAs of modified F-PDA/PEI@PI NFMs with various concentrations

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of SiO2 NPs. (b) WCAs of the water droplet with increasing time on PI based

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nanofibrous membrane surface, respectively; the inserts showing the optical profiles

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of the evaporation of water droplets. (c) WCAs of different water quality on relevant

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PI based nanofibrous membrane surface. (d) In-air sessile drop CAs for two different

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surfaces with five liquids. (e) photographic images of different liquid droplets on the

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commercial PVDF microporous membrane and F-SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI NFMs. (f) The

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proposed mechanism of waterproof property based on Yong-Laplace equation and a

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plausible mechanism of vapor permeation across the porous membrane.

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Wetting Resistance of Superhydrophobic Membrane Surface. According to the

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Wenzel and Cassie models, a rough surface is essential for enhancing the surface from

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hydrophobic to superhydrophobic and hydrophilic to superhydrophlic depending on

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the nature of the corresponding flat surface.44,45 The roughness can be improved by

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texturing with multiple scaled roughnesses to improve the wettability. Colloidal

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assemblies of inorganic nanoparticles via van der Waals interactions have been widely

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used to create hierarchical rough structures owing to its low cost and no expensive

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lithographic technique.6,27 PDA/PEI@PI NFMs modified with various concentrations 16


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of colloidal SiO2 NPs through elecronic attraction are presented in Figure S9. It is

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clearly shown that the morphology of the resultant membranes was significantly

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changed after being created with nano-scaled roughness structures on the nanofiber

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surface. All the SiO2 NPs are facilely positioned without obvious agglomeration, and

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a negligible amount of SiO2 NPs is present among the voids of nanofibers as the

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concentration of colloidal SiO2 NPs was increased from 0.02 to 0.2 wt% (Figure

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S9(a-d)). However, an obvious adhesion structure was appeared and the nanoparticles

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can large area fill the pores when the concentration of colloidal SiO2 NPs was

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increased over 0.5 wt% as shown the inserts of Figure S9(e & f). It is reasoned that

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the increased concentration of colloidal SiO2 NPs resulted in higher viscosity can

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block the membrane pores and greatly affect the roughness of nanofibers.

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The surface wettability of relevant SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI NFMs after fluorination

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were measured by static water contact angels as shown in Figure 4a, the WCAs of

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F-SiO2-PDA/[email protected],

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F-SiO2-PDA/[email protected] are 133°, 138°, 145° and 152°, respectively, indicating a

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noteworthy raising WCAs accompanied with increasing concentration of colloidal

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SiO2 NPs. However, further increases the concentration of colloidal SiO2 NP to 0.5

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and 1.0 wt% have decreased the WCAs to around 147° and 145°, respectively. This

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phenomenon was due to the filling of voids among the nanofibers that reduced the

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roughness of the membranes. As a result, F-SiO2-PDA/[email protected] NFMs was

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chosen as the optimal candidate for further study. In order to better understand the

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water dynamic behavior of the composite membrane, a high-speed camera system was

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used to examine the water droplet adhesion ability. As shown in Figure S10, a water

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droplet of 3 µL was forced to contact the membrane surface; the droplet can easily

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leave the membrane surface and remained its spherical shape without obvious


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deformation even at high load pressure, demonstrating the low water adhesion

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surface.

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Contact angles of evaporating water droplets (3 µL) on the as-prepared and

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modified PI NFMs were measured to evaluate the water resistance for durability, as

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shown in Figure 4b. In the case of PI and F-PDA/PEI membranes, the WCAs

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decreased rapidly to 65o and 84o at the end of evaporation as time increased to 30 min,

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illustrating the incursion of water into the voids of the nanofibrous membranes.

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Alternatively, the WCAs of superhydrophobic F-SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI NFMs exhibited

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few signs of sliding with evaporation, which was in support of the Cassie–Baxter

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model and revealed the hierarchical roughness surface can low the pinning of the

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water droplet.46 The detailed optical profiles of water droplets evaporation state on

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different membranes are shown in the insert in Figure 4b. The WCAs can remain high

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and the droplet maintain its spherical shape during evaporation. In addition, the

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membranes were measured to evaluate their resistance to a wide range of surface

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tension and water quality including NaCl, MeB, SDBS, HCl and NaOH solutions, the

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as-prepared PI and F-PDA/PEI@PI membrane had water contact angles over 100o,

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indicating the initially hydrophobicity of PI matrix. The resultant fluorinated

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membrane coated with SiO2 NPs have high WCAs toward various liquids compared

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to those with no SiO2 NPs decoration (Figure 4c), demonstrating the air-gaps in the

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pores have strongly liquid repulsive according to the Cassie theory. Comparing the

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wetting properties between the commercial PVDF microporous membrane with

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hydrophobicity and the F-SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI NFMs with omniphobicity as shown in

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Figure 4 (d & e), the commercial PVDF microporous membrane was resistance to

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wetting by the high-surface-tension liquids but easily wetted by low-surface-tension

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demonstrates the excellent antifouling performance.

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The MD membrane also should possess robust waterproof performance to prevent

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the membrane from wetting and permeation by salinity water. The mechanism of

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waterproof membrane are based on two criteria as shown in Figure 4f: (1) the surface

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of membrane should be hydrophobic; (2) the maximum pore size of membrane should

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be less than the average pore size of water droplet (＜100 µm), which can effective

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resist the water droplet permeation. Here, the waterproof performance of the

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F-SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI NFMs was tested by hydrostatic pressure, which was associated

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with the liquid surface tension (γliquid), liquid contact angle on the membrane surface

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(θadv) and shape of membrane pores according to Laplace-Young equation as follows:

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Hydrostatic pressure=−

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Here, the γwater =72.58 mN/m, θadv =152o, dmax =2.3 µm, the calculated Hydrostatic

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pressure was 45.3 kPa, which is finely matched well with the measured hydrostatic

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pressure of 42 kPa. The results demonstrated that the hydrostatic pressure was

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strongly related to the surface wettability and the maximum pore size of membrane.

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The ideal MD membrane not only requires good waterproofness, but also equips with

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fast vapor transmission rate. The electrospun nanofibrous membrane provides a

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3-dimensional network with interconnected porous structure, which possesses a robust

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property of water vapor permeation without any barriers. As shown in Figure 4f, the

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breathable property of the superhydrophobic nanofibrous membrane was driven by

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the temperatures gradient between the two sides. The water droplet vaporized into

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water molecules, following permeate through the hydrophobic porous membranes and

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be collected or condensed by pure water in the cold side (Figure 4f). In addition, the

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distillation membrane was often operated at hot salinity water (＞60 oC), thus the

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membrane should have the ability to resistance the hot water. The hot water repellent

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characteristic of the as-prepared PI, F-PDA/PEI@PI and F-SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI NMFs

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are displayed in Figure S11, it is clearly shown that both the PI and F-PDA/PEI@PI

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NFMs exhibited obvious wetting behavior as dotted in red, demonstrating the

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destruction of the smooth fiber surface. Interestingly, the F-SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI NFMs

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still exhibited robust hydrophobicity toward hot water with no obvious wetting and

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the hot droplets can easily slip on the membrane surface, implying the roughness

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constructed by SiO2 NPs significantly enhanced the thermal stability of

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F-SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI NFMs.

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Figure 5 (a) Operation temperatures, (b) concentrations of salts, (c) salinity water

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with different kinds of contaminants on the effect of membrane distillation. (d) 20


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Durability of the superhydrophobic F-SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI NFMs and the commercial

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hydrophobic PTFE membrane in a simulated sea water containing 3.5 wt% of NaCl.

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Membrane Performances in DCMD. The as-prepared PI NFMs treated at different

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stages and commercial hydrophobic PTFE with different pore sizes and PVDF

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microporous membranes were systematically evaluated using a lab–scale DCMD

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device as shown in Figure S1. The hot feed side and cold side temperatures were fixed

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at 60oC and 20 oC, respectively. It is observed that the flux of as-prepared PI NFMs

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was dramatically decreased from 27.02 to 8.12 L m-2 h-1 in 180 min and the

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F-PDA/PEI@PI membrane was decreased from 30.15 to 6.91 L m-2 h-1 in 240 min

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(Figure

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comparatively stable performance than the as-prepared PI NFMs in short time.

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Subsequently, the water flux was sharply decreased and the conductivity was

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substantially increased, revealing the membranes without roughness construction

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show no resistance to hot water and the feed side salinity water can easily permeate

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across the membrane. The results are in accordance with the above experiment that

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dumping hot water onto the membrane surface aiming at measuring the hot water

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resistance (Figure S11). Significantly, the F-SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI NFMs exhibited a

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stable MD performance with a high water flux of 31.29 L m-2 h-1 and salt rejection of

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~100% as presented in Figure S12(a & b). Both the water contact angles and

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membrane distillation performance of modified nanofibrous membrane was higher

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than that of traditional commercial hydrophobic PTFE membranes with different pore

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sizes as shown in Figure S(13 & 14).

S12a),

demonstrating

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As the membrane distillation is a non-isothermal separation process, the

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temperature gradient has tremendous effect on the permeate flux.48,49 All the

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membranes were performed over a period of 8 h using 3 wt% of NaCl solution. The

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feed temperature was increased ranging from 40 to 90 oC and the collected side water

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temperature was always fixed at 20 oC. Figure 5a demonstrates the water flux was

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significantly increased from 14.23 to 63.25 L m-2 h-1 as the feed temperature was

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increased from 40 to 90 oC, illustrating the increasing feed temperature can effectively

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improve the vapor driving force. Fortunately, the membrane operated at high

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temperature (90 oC) also exhibited excellent salt rejection due to the durable hot water

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repellent characteristic as demonstrated in Figure S11. The permeate flux of

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F-SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI NFMs operated at 3.0 wt% of NaCl solution and the hot side

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temperature fixed at 60 oC is about 31.02 L m-2 h-1, which is slightly lower than that of

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deionized water of 34.49 L m-2 h-1 (Figure 5b). Moreover, it was found that the water

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flux was regularly decreased as increasing the NaCl concentrations, suggesting that

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the hydration of ion and ionic association in salt solution reduced the water activity

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and resulted in the decline of vapor pressure.

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In addition, we also evaluated the MD performance using feed salinity water

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solutions containing typical organic pollutant (MeB, lubricating oil, and

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representative surfactant SDBS). It is well known that organic pollutants are often

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presented in high salinity wastewater; therefore, the distillation membrane also should

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have the ability to isolate the organic pollutants preventing the clean water from

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pollution. Unfortunately, after the oil was added in the saline water, the water flux of 22


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commercial macroporous PVDF membrane (Millipore, 0.45 µm) was continuously

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decreased and salt rejection was substantially increased, suggesting that the

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commercial PVDF membrane is prone to wetting by the low surface tension feed

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waters. Our resultant F-SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI NFMs exhibited a stable separation and

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purification performance for treatment of polluted salinity wastewater containing

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typical low surface tension and dissolved contaminants as displayed in Figure 5c. We

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attribute this fascinating result to the multilayer structured membrane and low surface

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energy of F-SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI NFMs with omniphobicity. Meanwhile, the simulated

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RO concentrated water was also performed under the same condition, the membrane

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also showed a stable water flux and high salt rejection. Significantly, the

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superhydrophobic F-SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI NFMs shows a water contact angle of 152o,

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which exhibited disadvantage compared to previous electrospun nanofibrous

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membranes employed in MD.50-52 However, it is worth noting that the above

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mentioned electrospun MD membranes show comparatively high contact angles, but

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the running time of membrane distillation is generally less than 12 h. We inferred that

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traditional coating or co-electrospinning methods are inevitably faced the

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inhomogeneity of roughness on membrane substrate because the coated inorganic

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nanoparticles are not uniformly and compactly covered the membrane surface. The

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flaws may become the beginning of the membrane wetting after long-time operation.

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The superhydrophobic F-SiO2-PDA/PEI@PI NFMs membrane can maintain robust

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durability and stability after 48 h operation, which have obvious advantages compared

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microporous membrane (Figure 5d). Therefore, the compactness and uniformity of

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inorganic particles on the membrane substrate play key roles in determining the

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durability of MD membrane, reducing the formation of defects and the wetting of

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membrane.

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Figure 6 (a-e) FE-SEM images of porous materials after hierarchical structure

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construction. (f) The water contact angles of hierarchical structured porous materials

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before and after fluorination.

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A Simple and Universal Procedure for Fabricating Hierarchical Structured

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Materials with Superhydrophobicity or Superhydrophilicity. To prove the

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universality of this method, various materials including copper mesh, steel mesh,

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silica fiber, hydrate membrane and cellulose triacetate membrane were used to

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construct the raw materials with hierarchical structures. The raw materials before and

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after roughness construction are shown in Figure S15 and Figure 6, all the materials 24


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whether the inorganic, metal or polymer materials can be successfully constructed

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with roughness. Significantly, all the materials after SiO2 NPs construction exhibited

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robust superhydrophlic surface with water contact angles of 0o. After fluorination, the

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surface properties of materials were greatly turned from superhydrophlicity to

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superhydrophobicity as shown in Figure 6f, demonstrating the dual-bioinspired design

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can be used as a universal method and paved a new method for constructing

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membranes surface with superhydrophobicity or superhydrophilicity for various

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applications.

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In summary, we have successfully demonstrated a facile and scalable method for

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fabrication of superhydrophobic nanofibrous membrane with enhanced hot water

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resistance via electrospinning, dual-bioinspired design and fluorination. The in situ

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polymerized PDA/PEI layer endowed the as-prepared PI NFMs with strong positively

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charged coating, which enable irreversible bind the negatively charged SiO2 NPs onto

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the nanofiber surface through electrostatic attraction. After fluorination, the resultant

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nanofibrous membrane displayed promising superhydrophobicity with a WCA of 152o

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and displayed robust resistance to hot water (85 oC). In addition, the relationship

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among hydrophobicity, hydrostatic pressure and maximum pore size were proved to

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be finely accordance with the Young-Laplace equation. Significantly, the

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superhydrophobic nanofibrous membrane exhibited a stable performance for treating

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high salinity wastewater, in which contained typical low surface tension and dissolved

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contaminants.

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environmental benign synthesis and would pave the way for new types of hierarchical

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structured materials for various applications such as waterproof and breathable fabrics,

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oil water separation and anti-pollution paint etc.

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Supporting information

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The Supporting Information is available free of charge on the ACS Publications

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website at DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.XXX.

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AUTHOR INFORMATION

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Corresponding Author E-mail: [email protected]

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The authors declare no competing financial interest.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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The authors gratefully acknowledge National Natural Science Foundation of China

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(Grant no. 51573034), State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and

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Environment in HIT of China (No. 2016DX02), HIT Environment and Ecology

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Innovation Special Funds (No. HSCJ201606), Postdoctoral Science Foundation of

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Heilongjiang Prov. (LBH-TZ0606 and LBH-Q16012). Scientific Research Foundation

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for Returned Scholars, Heilongjiang of China (LC2017023). The authors also

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gratefully acknowledge acknowledge Dr. Zheyu Li for useful discussions and

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technical support.

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