Recent developments in carbon nanotube membranes for water purification and gas separation

Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 127-149

  Sears, Kallista ^a   Dumée, Ludovic ^a,b   Schütz, Jürg ^a   She, Mary ^c   Huynh, Chi ^a   Hawkins, Stephen ^a   Duke, Mikel ^b   Gray, Stephen ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bucky paper; Carbon nanotube; Filtration; Membrane

Indexed keywords

BUCKY-PAPER; CARBON NANOTUBE MEMBRANES; CONTROLLED POROSITY; HIGH MECHANICAL STRENGTH; LARGE SPECIFIC SURFACE AREAS; MACROSCOPIC STRUCTURE; NANOSCALE CYLINDERS; PAPER LIKE STRUCTURES;

ASPECT RATIO; CARBON NANOTUBES; FILTRATION; MEMBRANES; MICROFILTRATION; WATER SUPPLY;

GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES;

EID: 77953529488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma3010127     Document Type: Article

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