Development of high performance nano-porous polyethersulfone ultrafiltration membranes with hydrophilic surface and superior antifouling properties

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 255, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 9166-9173

  Rahimpour, Ahmad ^a   Madaeni, Sayed Siavash ^b   Jahanshahi, Mohsen ^a   Mansourpanah, Yaghoub ^c   Mortazavian, Narmin ^a  

^a BABOL NOSHIRVANI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b RAZI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c LORESTAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Antifouling; High performance; Hydrophilic surface; Membrane; Nano porous

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; GELATION; HYDROPHILICITY; MEMBRANES; MICROFILTRATION; MIXTURES; MORPHOLOGY; PROTEINS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER FILTRATION;

ANTIFOULING; HIGH PERFORMANCE; HYDROPHILIC MEMBRANES; HYDROPHILIC SURFACES; IMMERSION PRECIPITATION; NANO-POROUS; POLYETHERSULFONE ULTRAFILTRATION MEMBRANE; POLYMER CONCENTRATIONS;

PERMEATION;

EID: 68649090784     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2009.06.123     Document Type: Article

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