Development of hydroxyapatite-enhanced membrane for nanoplastics removal: Multiple scenarios and mechanism exploration
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Nanoplastics (NPs) are widespread in wastewater systems and more toxic than microplastics (MPs), necessitating effective removal techniques. Although membranes can effectively remove MPs, their efficiency and mechanisms for NPs removal require further study. A novel hydroxyapatite functionalized PVDF (HAPF) membrane was developed for NPs removal. The optimized HAPF membrane was prepared via a one-step method with 800 mg/L HAP at pH 7.3 for 8 hours. It achieved a water flux of 4376.44 LMH, 3.4 times higher than that of the pristine PVDF membrane, while maintaining a polystyrene (PS) NPs rejection above 99.5%. The HAPF membrane maintained 95% of its pure water flux when treating wastewater with only PS NPs, but exhibited severe flux decline under varying conditions, such as surface-functionalized PS NPs, pH changes, or coexisting contaminants. Among these, the presence of MgSO 4 alongside PS NPs caused the most severe water flux reduction, with the HAPF membrane undergoing complete blocking, followed by the formation of a cake layer. XDLVO results revealed that there is an attractive interaction between the HAPF membrane and PS NPs, primarily driven by acid-base interaction. The HAPF membrane exhibited significantly lower R m and R f values than the PVDF membrane and achieved a flux recovery rate of 92.94% over multiple fouling-cleaning cycles. Its water flux was 18.9 times that of the PVDF membrane during long-term filtration. The developed HAPF membrane holds significant potential for advanced water treatment and fouling.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".