Carbon nanotube blended polyethersulfone membranes for fouling control in water treatment

Water Research

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 274-282

  Celik, Evrim ^a   Park, Hosik ^a   Choi, Hyeongyu ^a   Choi, Heechul ^a  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Composite membrane; Fouling control; Hydrophilicity; Multi walled carbon nanotubes; Polyethersulfone; Ultrafiltration

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; CONTACT ANGLE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROPHILICITY; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANES; MICROFILTRATION; MORPHOLOGY; NANOTUBES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE WATERS; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER FILTRATION; WATER TREATMENT;

BLEND MEMBRANES; FOULING CONTROL; NATURAL WATERS; PERMEATION PROPERTIES; PES MEMBRANES; PHASE-INVERSION METHOD; POLYETHERSULFONE MEMBRANE; POLYETHERSULFONES;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; POLYETHERSULFONE;

COMPOSITE; DESORPTION; FOULING; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; FULLERENE; KETONE; MEMBRANE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PERMEABILITY; PHASE TRANSITION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER FLOW; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CONTACT ANGLE; DESORPTION; FOULING CONTROL; HYDROPHILICITY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 78649659187     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2010.07.060     Document Type: Article

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