The effect of uni-axial stretching on the roughness of microfiltration membranes

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 280, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 712-719

  Morehouse, Jason A ^a   Taylor, Dana L ^a   Lloyd, Douglas R ^a   Lawler, Desmond F ^a   Freeman, Benny D ^a   Worrel, Leah S ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Microporous; Phase inversion; PVDF; Roughness

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACES;

BULK PROPERTIES; PHASE INVERSION; PVDF; UNI-AXIAL ORIENTATION;

MICROFILTRATION;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MICROFILTRATION; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACES;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BULK DENSITY; CROSSFLOW FILTRATION; MACROMOLECULE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MICROFILTRATION; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 33745714061     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2006.02.027     Document Type: Article

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