Correlations of chemical structure, atomic force microscopy (AFM) morphology, and reverse osmosis (RO) characteristics in aromatic polyester high-flux RO membranes

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 183-191

  Kwak, Seung Yeop ^a,b   Yeom, Min Oh ^a   Roh, Il Juhn ^a   Kim, Dong Young ^a   Kim, Jae Jin ^a  

^a Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Aromatic polyester thin film composite membranes; Atomic force microscopy; Reverse osmosis characteristics; Structure morphology performance relationships

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC POLYMERS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; PLASTIC FILMS; POLYESTERS; POLYMERIC MEMBRANES; POLYMERIZATION; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THIN FILMS;

BISPHENOLS; REVERSE OSMOSIS MEMBRANES;

OSMOSIS MEMBRANES;

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; HALOGEN; METHYL GROUP; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; POLYESTER;

COMPOSITES; MEMBRANES; POLYMERIZATION; REVERSE OSMOSIS;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE OSMOSIS;

EID: 0031551429     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-7388(97)00077-X     Document Type: Article

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