New method of water purification based on the particle-exclusion phenomenon

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 6160-6166

  Klyuzhin, Ivan ^a   Symonds, Andrew ^a,b   Magula, Jeffrey ^a   Pollack, Gerald H ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PURIFICATION; SUSPENSIONS (COMPONENTS); WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

CLEAN WATERS; COLLOIDAL PARTICLES; HYDROPHILIC SURFACES; INORGANIC MATTER; NOVEL METHODS; PROOF OF CONCEPTS; WATER PURIFICATION;

OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION;

COLLOID; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INORGANIC MATTER; ORGANIC MATTER; PATHOGEN; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; EXTRACTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; SUSPENSION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ADENOVIRIDAE; BACTERIA; PARTICULATE MATTER; SOIL; WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 49749134322     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es703159q     Document Type: Article

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