Water transport behavior of chitosan porous membranes containing multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs)

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 337, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 240-247

  Tang, Changyu ^a   Zhang, Qin ^a   Wang, Ke ^a   Fu, Qiang ^a   Zhang, Chaoliang ^b  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chitosan; Multi walled carbon nanotubes; Polyethylene glycol; Porous membrane; Water transport

Indexed keywords

CHITOSAN MEMBRANE; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NANO CHANNELS; PEG6000; PORE NETWORKS; POROGEN; POROUS MEMBRANE; POROUS MEMBRANES; TRANSPORT CHANNEL; WATER FLUX; WATER TRANSPORT; WATER TRANSPORT RATE;

CHITIN; CHITOSAN; COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOFLUIDICS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; PORE SIZE; SOLVENTS; THERMOPLASTICS; WATER CONTENT;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; CHITOSAN; NANOCHANNEL; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; FLOW KINETICS; MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER TRANSPORT;

EID: 65649123813     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2009.03.048     Document Type: Article

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