120th General Meeting of the KCS

Type Poster Presentation
Area Polymer Chemistry
Room No. Exhibition Hall 2+3
Time 10월 20일 (금요일) 13:00~14:30
Code POLY.P-43
Subject 3D Printing of Surface Area-controlled Polymeric Structures for As(Ⅲ) Removal
Authors Kihoon Kim, Giho Choi, Kwanwoo Shin*
Department of Chemistry, Sogang University, Korea
Abstract 3D printing which produces objects directly from Computer Aided Designs (CAD) is one of the most versatile and revolutionary technique. 3D printing is a very simple and easy technique to fabricate complex structures which are customized to any personal needs without additional specific tools for the structures. In the meantime, heavy metal pollution has become one of the most serious environmental problems nowadays. Various methods for heavy metal removal including chemical precipitation, ion-exchange, adsorption, membrane filtration and electrochemical methods have their own pros and cons. We fabricated optimized 3D printed polymeric structures for efficient heavy metal removal in the flowing water. These customized polymeric structures are designed to have high surface area coming from specific patterns of structures and modified porous polymeric surfaces. We analyzed the amounts of heavy metal ions in the water are decreased which filtered by these surface area-controlled 3D printed patterns.
E-mail kihoon5101@naver.com