Performance and Characterization for Blend Membrane of PES with Manganese(III) Acetylacetonate as Metalorganic Nanoparticles

<table class="table-group" id="tab4"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left">Membrane</td><td align="center">Pores size, <i>µ</i>m</td><td align="center">Roughness, <i>µ</i>m</td><td align="center">Average mean height of peaks, <i>µ</i>m</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Bare PES</td><td align="center">Mean pore size 0.076 ± 0.024<br/>Min. 0.003<br/>Max. 0.35</td><td align="center">2.4</td><td align="center">216.38</td></tr><tr><td align="center" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">PES/Mn(acac)<sup>3</sup> blend membrane</td><td align="center">Mean pore size 0.003 ± 0.018<br/>Min. 0.0002<br/>Max. 0.017</td><td align="center">0.46</td><td align="center">435.96</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="4"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Parameters of surface morphology of PES/Mn(acac)<sup>3</sup> blend membrane and bare PES were obtained from AFM images.

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Table 4: Performance and Characterization for Blend Membrane of PES with Manganese(III) Acetylacetonate as Metalorganic Nanoparticles 