Pioneering explorations of rooting causes for morphology and performance differences in hollow fiber kidney dialysis membranes spun from linear and hyperbranched polyethersulfone

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 313, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 190-198

  Yang, Qian ^a   Chung, Tai Shung ^a   Chen, Shing Bor ^a   Weber, M ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Characterizations; Kidney dialysis membrane; Polyethersulfone; Polyvinylpyrrolidone; Post treatment

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; KETONES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PORE SIZE;

KIDNEY DIALYSIS MEMBRANE; POLYETHERSULFONE; POLYVINYLPYRROLIDONE;

DIALYSIS;

POLYETHERSULFONE; POLYMER;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DIALYSIS; KETONES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PORE SIZE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DEVICE; FIBER KIDNEY DIALYSIS MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORPHOLOGY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; ROOTING; THERMAL ANALYSIS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 40849116345     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2008.01.008     Document Type: Article

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