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This process involves the reaction of glycerol, an organic precursor with a structure featuring 1,2-diol and 1,3-diol groups, with TiCl4 vapor to form organometallic hybrid films. Subsequent calcination in air at 250 \u00b0C transforms these hybrid films into carbon-doped titanium oxide nanofilms. The unique structure of glycerol plays a crucial role in determining the properties of the resulting nanopores, which exhibit high solvent permeance and effective solute rejection. The synthesized carbon-doped TiO2 nanofiltration membranes demonstrated impressive performance, achieving a pure methanol permeability as high as 90.9 L\u00b7m\u22122\u00b7h \u22121\u00b7bar\u22121. Moreover, these membranes exhibited a rejection rate of 93.2% for Congo Red in a methanol solution, underscoring their efficacy in separating solutes from solvents. The rigidity of the nanopores within these nanofilms, when supported on ceramic materials, confers high chemical stability even in the presence of polar solvents. This robustness makes the carbon-doped TiO2 nanofilms suitable for applications in the purification and recovery of organic solvents.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/membranes14110233","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,11,7]],"date-time":"2024-11-07T12:12:13Z","timestamp":1730981533000},"page":"233","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Carbon-Doped TiO2 Nanofiltration Membranes Prepared by Interfacial Reaction of Glycerol with TiCl4 Vapor"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Wenjing","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Tianjin Key Laboratory of Organic Solar Cells and Photochemical Conversion, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jiangzhou","family":"Luo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Tianjin Key Laboratory of Organic Solar Cells and Photochemical Conversion, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1836-3777","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Honglei","family":"Ling","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Tianjin Key Laboratory of Organic Solar Cells and Photochemical Conversion, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3490-3393","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lei","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Tianjin Key Laboratory of Organic Solar Cells and Photochemical Conversion, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Song","family":"Xue","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Tianjin Key Laboratory of Organic Solar Cells and Photochemical Conversion, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,11,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"10735","DOI":"10.1021\/cr500006j","article-title":"Molecular separation with organic solvent nanofiltration: A critical review","volume":"114","author":"Marchetti","year":"2014","journal-title":"Chem. 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