Lixia Liu

Liaocheng Universtiy · College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Radiation-induced “grafting to” method was reported for the first time to modify multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) with good solution processibility through covalently grafting polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) onto MWNTs’ side walls under γ-ray irradiation at room temperature. FT-IR, ¹H-NMR, XPS, TEM, Raman and TG results demonstrated that PVA chains wer...

Polyethersulfone (PES)-based membranes with a high and stable desalination performance for vacuum membrane distillation (VMD) were fabricated by spraying a dispersion containing hydrophobic-modified PES grafted copolymers onto porous PES membranes. The copolymer (PES-g-PFMA-C8) with different degrees of grafting (DG) was synthesized by grafting 1H,...

Due to the high cost of ionic liquids (ILs), how to economically recycle them from aqueous solutions is one of the critical issues for their large-scale applications. In this work, vacuum membrane distillation (VMD) technique was proposed to separate and concentrate the 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ([Bmim]Cl) aqueous solutions at high conce...

During membrane processes of wastewater treatment, biofouling is a critical issue affecting membrane performance. Interspecies quorum quenching (QQ) by bacterial cell has been reported as a novel approach for mitigating the biofouling via restraining quorum sensing (QS), where secreted signaling molecules, e.g., acyl homoserine lactones (AHLs) bein...

Superhydrophobic porous composite membranes are successfully prepared by using poly(vinyl acetate) functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes and tested for water desalination under a direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) method. The permeate flux of the composite membranes remains greater than 20 kg m-2 h-1 and the salt rejection greater t...