Polyamide-imide Nanofiltration hollow fiber membranes with elongation-induced nano-pore evolution

AIChE Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1481-1494

  Sun, Shi Peng ^a   Wang, Kai Yu ^a   Rajarathnam, D ^a   Hatton, T Alan ^a,b   Chung, Tai Shung ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Glutathione; Hllow fiber membranes; Nanofiltration; Polyamide imide (PAI); Torlon

Indexed keywords

AFM; BINARY SALTS; DIVALENT IONS; EXTERNAL STRETCHING; FIBER MEMBRANES; FTIR; GLUTATHIONES; HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANES; MOLECULAR DESIGN; MOLECULAR WEIGHT CUTOFF; MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; NANOPOROUS MEMBRANE; NEUTRAL PH; POLYAMIDE-IMIDE (PAI); PURE WATER PERMEABILITIES; SKIN LAYER; TRIPEPTIDE; WET-SPINNING;

BIOLOGY; FIBERS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; NANOFILTRATION; NANOPORES; POLYAMIDEIMIDES; PORE SIZE; SPINNING (FIBERS); WATER FILTRATION;

NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES;

EID: 77955833710     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.12083     Document Type: Article

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