Novel micro-/nano-dual-scale porous composites have been
fabricated for nanopollutant filtration by powder metallurgy via four-step
sintering of Ti, Al, and Nb powders incorporated with SiO2/ZrO2/Y2O3/
MgO/ZnO nanoparticles, respectively. Afterward, phase formation, surface
morphology, and pore features of the porous composites have been
characterized with the changes of heat-treatment temperatures and additive
nanoparticles. The separation efficiency of as-prepared Ti-48Al-6Nb porous
alloy and porous composite membranes for 50 mg/L TiO2 nanopollutants
from pure water can be calculated through determining the change of TiO2
concentrations after filtration. Compared with the Ti-48Al-6Nb porous
alloy membrane with a separation efficiency of 89.91%, all porous
composite membranes can enhance the separation efficiency up to
99.80%. In particular, favorable contributions of the porous composite
membrane with nano-SiO2 are further ascertained by maintaining a high
separation efficiency of above 99.95% after repeated filtration of 100 times.