Crosslinked ion exchange membranes by radiation grafting of styrene/divinylbenzene into FEP films

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 231-238

  Gupta, Bhuvanesh ^a,c   Büchi, Felix N ^a   Scherer, Günther G ^a   Chapiró, Adolphe ^b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Crosslinking; Ion exchange membranes; Radiation grafting

Indexed keywords

POLYSTYRENE; STYRENE; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL REACTION; CROSS LINKING; ION EXCHANGE; MEMBRANE FORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION;

BENZENE; COMPOSITION EFFECTS; CROSSLINKING; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); IONIC CONDUCTION IN SOLIDS; PLASTIC FILMS; RADIATION EFFECTS; STYRENE; SULFONATION; SWELLING;

DIVINYLBENZENE; IONIC RESISTIVITY; RADIATION GRAFTING; SPECIFIC RESISTIVITY;

ION EXCHANGE MEMBRANES;

ION EXCHANGE; MEMBRANES-SYNTHETIC;

EID: 0030592207     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0376-7388(96)00093-2     Document Type: Article

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