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Preparation, Structure, and Properties of Track-Etched Membranes Based on Polylactic Acid

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New applications, in particular in medicine, require the creation of track-etched membranes (TMs) with fundamentally new properties. There are well-known TMs made from polycarbonate, polyimide, polypropylene, polyethylene terephthalate, polyethylene naphthalate, and polyvinylidene fluoride; that is, polymers characterized by high chemical resistance. This study focuses on the development of a membrane made of the biodegradable polymer polylactic acid (PLA). Films prepared from a 1% solution of polylactic acid with a molecular weight of Mw = 121000 g/mol were taken as the initial matrix for TM fabrication. The films were irradiated with 1.2-MeV Xe ions at a fluence of 3.1 × 107 cm−2 on an IC-100 cyclotron. Etching was carried out in NaOH solutions of various concentrations (0.1, 1, or 2 mol/L) with varying the temperature from 18 to 70°С and the treatment time from 5 to 30 min. It has been revealed that the optimal treatment conditions for irradiated PLA films are etching in 1 M NaOH at a temperature of 44°C. This mode, with a time variation from 10 to 30 min, makes it possible to obtain through pores with a diameter of 0.6 to 1.5 µm with channel geometry close to cylindrical. It has been found that an increase in the etching time over 20 min leads to a decrease in the roughness of both membrane sides.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This research was supported by the Development Program of Tomsk Polytechnic University. The authors (E.O. Filippova, N.M. Ivanova) express their deep gratitude to Professor V.F. Pichugin for invaluable advice and assistance in carrying out this research. The authors are grateful to M.O. Koptsev for help in etching the samples. Special thanks to O.M. Ivanov for assistance in the irradiation of samples at the IC-100 accelerator.

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  1. Tomsk Polytechnic University (National Research University), 634050, Tomsk, Russia

    N. M. Ivanova, E. O. Filippova & S. I. Tverdokhlebov

  2. Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980, Dubna, Moscow oblast, Russia

    N. V. Levkovich & P. Yu. Apel

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Ivanova, N.M., Filippova, E.O., Tverdokhlebov, S.I. et al. Preparation, Structure, and Properties of Track-Etched Membranes Based on Polylactic Acid. Membr. Membr. Technol. 3, 282–290 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2517751621050073

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