Experimental investigation of the effect of electrospinning parameters on properties of superhydrophobic PDMS/PMMA membrane and its application in membrane distillation
Abstract(#br)Considerable efforts have been devoted to finding economic and simple preparation methods for polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) superhydrophobic membrane in past decades. This study provides a simple method to electrospin PDMS membrane using poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) as carrier polymer. Effects of PMMA concentration, PDMS/PMMA mass ratio and main parameters of electrospinning process (voltage and injection rate) were investigated to obtain superhydrophobic membrane with high water contact angle (WCA).