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USOO9724649B2 (12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 9,724,649 B2 Stasiak et al. (45) Date of Patent: Aug. 8, 2017 (54) SELF-WETTING POROUS MEMBRANES (I) (56) References Cited (71) Applicant: PALL CORPORATION, Port U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS Washington, NY (US) 3,318,959 A 5, 1967 Borman 3,847,867 A 11/1974 Heath et al. (72) Inventors: Marcin Stasiak, Port Washington, NY (Continued) (US); Hassan Ait-Haddou, Melville, NY (US) FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS EP O318787 A2 6, 1989 (73) Assignee: Pall Corporation, Port Washington, EP 296274.6 A1 1, 2016 NY (US) (Continued) (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 OTHER PUBLICATIONS U.S.C. 154(b) by 168 days. European Patent Office, Extended European Search Report issued in European Patent Application No. 16167135.9 (Oct. 27, 2016) 5 pp. (21) Appl. No.: 14/750,382 (Continued) Primary Examiner — Taiwo Oladapo (22) Filed: Jun. 25, 2015 (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm — Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd. Prior Publication Data (65) (57) ABSTRACT US 2016/0375409 A1 Dec. 29, 2016 Disclosed is a self-wetting porous membrane comprising an aromatic hydrophobic polymer Such as polysulfone and a (51) Int. C. wetting agent comprising a copolymer of formula A-B or A-B-A, wherein A is a hydrophilic segment comprising a BOLD 7L/06 (2006.01) polymerized monomer of the formula (I): CH=C(R')(R), BOLD 69/06 (2006.01) wherein R' and R are as described herein, and B is an (Continued) aromatic hydrophobic polymeric segment, wherein seg (52) U.S. C. ments B and A are linked through an amidoalkylthio group. CPC ........... B01D 69/06 (2013.01); B01D 61/246 Also disclosed is a method of preparing a self-wetting (2013.01); B0ID 6770013 (2013.01); membrane comprising casting a solution containing an aro (Continued) matic hydrophobic polymer and the wetting agent, followed (58) Field of Classification Search by Subjecting the cast solution to phase inversion. The CPC ... B01D 69/06; B01D 67/0013; B01D 71/62; self-wetting porous membrane finds use in hemodialysis, B01D 61/246; B01D 71/06; B01D 71/60; microfiltration, and ultrafiltration. (Continued) 20 Claims, 1 Drawing Sheet US 9,724,649 B2 Page 2 (51) Int. Cl. Asif, et al., “Hydroxyl Terminated Poly(ether ether ketone) with Pendant Methyl Group-Toughened Epoxy Clay Ternary BOLD 67/00 (2006.01) Nanocomposites: Preparation, Morphology, and Thermomechanical BOLD 7L/68 (2006.01) Properties,” Journal of Applied Polymer Science, vol. 106, pp. BOLD 7L/80 (2006.01) 2936-2946 (2007). 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No. 14/750,443, filed Jun. 25, 2015. * cited by examiner U.S. Patent Aug. 8, 2017 US 9,724,649 B2 US 9,724,649 B2 1. 2 SELF-WETTING POROUS MEMBRANES (I) BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The FIGURE depicts the SEM micrograph of a self wetting porous membrane in accordance with an embodi Aromatic hydrophobic polymers such as polysulfone and ment of the invention illustrated in Example 10. polyetherSulfone are attractive as membrane polymers for one or more of the following reasons: a high glass transition DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE temperatures, amorphous glassy state, thermal and oxidative INVENTION stability, excellent strength and flexibility, resistance to extreme pHs, and low creep even at elevated temperatures. 10 In an embodiment, the invention provides a self-wetting However, these polymers are inherently hydrophobic and porous membrane comprising an aromatic hydrophobic therefore porous membranes made from these polymers are polymer and a wetting agent comprising a copolymer of not wettable by water. formula A-B or A-B-A, wherein A is a hydrophilic segment Attempts have been made to improve the surface wetta 15 comprising a polymerized monomer or mixture of mono bility of porous membranes made from Such polymers by mers, wherein the monomer is of the formula (I): numerous methods including coating and crosslinking a hydrophilic polymer, grafting of hydrophilic monomers by e-beam, gamma radiation, or UV or other radiation, Surface wherein R' is hydrogen or alkyl, and R is selected from oxidation, Surface-initiated free radical grafting, blending substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclyl, substituted or with hydrophilic additives such as polyvinylpyrrolidone unsubstituted heteroaryl, formylamino, formylaminoalkyl, (PVP), copolymers of PVP polyvinylalcohol (PVA), copo aminocarbonyl, alkylcarbonyloxy, and aminocarbonylalkyl lymers of PVA, polyethylene oxide (PEO), copolymers of Substituted with a Zwitterionic group, and B is an aromatic PEO and polypropylene oxide, and in situ polymerization of hydrophobic polymeric segment, wherein segments B and A hydrophilic monomers. 25 are linked through an amidoalkylthio group. “A” further Drawbacks are associated with one or more of the above comprises an end group. attempted methods. For example, with the methods involv The term "heterocyclyl as used herein refers to a mono ing blending of hydrophilic additives, the additives tend to cyclic heterocyclic group or a bicyclic heterocyclic group. leach out of the porous membrane on prolonged use in The monocyclic heterocycle is a three-, four-, five-, six- or aqueous environments. Approaches involving coating and 30 seven-membered ring containing at least one heteroatom crosslinking a hydrophilic polymer tend to shrink or modify independently selected from the group consisting of O, N, the membrane pores, thereby limiting the usefulness of the N(H) and S. The three- or four-membered ring contains Zero membranes.