Water filtration performance of a lyotropic liquid crystal polymer membrane with uniform, sub-1-nm pores

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 366, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 62-72

  Hatakeyama, Evan S ^a   Gabriel, Christopher J ^b   Wiesenauer, Brian R ^b   Lohr, Jenny L ^a   Zhou, Meijuan ^a   Noble, Richard D ^a   Gin, Douglas L ^a,b  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Donnan steric pore model; Lyotropic liquid crystals; Nanofiltration; Nanoporous; Pore size distribution; Pore size modeling; Reverse osmosis; Slit pores; Uniform pores

Indexed keywords

LYOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; NANOPOROUS; PORE MODELS; SLIT PORES; UNIFORM PORE;

CHEMICAL STABILITY; CHLORINE; CRYSTALS; DESALINATION; EXPERIMENTS; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MEMBRANES; METAL CLADDING; MICROFILTRATION; NANOFILTRATION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PORE SIZE; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOLUTIONS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; WATER FILTRATION;

NANOPORES;

INORGANIC SALT; NANOMATERIAL; POLYMER;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; DESALINATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; NANOFILTRATION; NANOPORE; OSMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE OSMOSIS; WATER TRANSPORT;

EID: 78649491887     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2010.09.028     Document Type: Article

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