摘要

Large-scale fabrication of nanofilms directly on macro-porous substrates remains a major challenge in preparing advanced separation membranes. In this work, polyphenol/polyamine nanofilms with a minimum thickness around 13 nm were formed at the gas/liquid interface and simultaneously composited onto hydrophobic macroporous substrates with the pore size of several hundreds of nanometers, a process driven by high oxygen concentration and interfacial energy at the interface. The as-prepared nanofilms show nearly complete rejection to a wide spectrum of dye molecules, and above 90% rejection to divalent cations such as Mg2+ and Ca2+ with a relative high permeate flux above 15 L m(-2) h(-1) bar(-1), demonstrating great potential in ionic and molecular sieving processes.