Hydrochloric acid (37%),
sodium borohydride (NaBH
4, 37.83 g/mol, pH value of 11 (10 g/L solution in water)),
i–propanol,
t–butanol and
n–decanol were used without additional purification as supplied by the manufacturer (Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany).
Osmium tetroxide (OsO
4), undecylenyl alcohol (11–hydroxy–1–undecene or 10–undecen–1–ol),
10–undecylenic acid or
10–undecenoic acid (>95%), and
p–nitrophenol, are from Sigma-Aldrich (Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany).
The pure water used for the preparation of all the solutions used in the experiments was obtained with a standard system MilliQ
® Direct 8 RO Water Purification System (Merck, Darmstadt, Germany). The characteristic conductivity of the water obtained through the reverse osmosis system is 18.2 μs/cm.
As a membrane support material, a bundle of polypropylene fibers (surface 1 m
2/bundle) was purchased from GOST Ltd. (GOST Ltd., Perugia, Italy). To maintain the fibers’ characteristics, they were conditioned with polyols. Their morphological, structural and process characteristics were previously presented in detail [36 ,37 (
link),38 (
link)].
Albu P.C., Ferencz (Dinu) A., Al-Ani H.N., Tanczos S.K., Oprea O., Grosu V.A., Nechifor G., Bungău S.G., Grosu A.R., Goran A, & Nechifor A.C. (2021). Osmium Recovery as Membrane Nanomaterials through 10–Undecenoic Acid Reduction Method. Membranes, 12(1), 51.