High throughput study of phase inversion parameters for polyimide-based SRNF membranes

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 330, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 307-318

  Vandezande, Pieter ^a   Li, Xianfeng ^a   Gevers, Lieven E M ^a   Vankelecom, Ivo F J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

High throughput membrane screening; High throughput membrane synthesis; Phase inversion; Polyimide; Solvent resistant nanofiltration

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOLS; ASYMMETRIC POLYIMIDES; CASTING SOLUTIONS; COST EFFICIENCIES; EVAPORATION TIME; HANSEN SOLUBILITY PARAMETERS; HIGH THROUGHPUT MEMBRANE SCREENING; HIGH THROUGHPUT MEMBRANE SYNTHESIS; MEMBRANE CASTINGS; MEMBRANE PREPARATIONS; NON SOLVENTS; PARAMETER SPACES; PHASE INVERSION; PHASE INVERSION PROCESS; POLYMER CONCENTRATIONS; ROSE BENGAL; SEM; SOLVENT RESISTANT NANOFILTRATION; STILL MISSING; TESTING PROCESS; TIME FRAMES; WEIGHT RATIOS;

COAGULATION; MEMBRANES; NANOFILTRATION; POLYIMIDES; POLYMER SOLUTIONS; POLYMERS; SOLVENTS; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT;

THROUGHPUT;

2 PROPANOL; POLYIMIDE; POLYMER; ROSE BENGAL; SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; EVAPORATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; IMMERSION; NANOFILTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLUBILITY; VISCOMETRY;

EID: 60549086930     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2008.12.068     Document Type: Article

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