Gas permeation behavior of pebax-1657 nanocomposite membrane incorporated with multiwalled carbon nanotubes

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 6530-6538

  Surya Murali, R ^a   Sridhar, S ^a   Sankarshana, T ^b   Ravikumar, Y V L ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b OSMANIA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMER MEMBRANE; CROSS-SECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; DEGREE OF CRYSTALLINITY; DENSITY MEASUREMENTS; DIISOCYANATES; ETHANOL WATER MIXTURES; EXTENT OF CROSS-LINKING; FEED PRESSURE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; FRACTIONAL FREE VOLUME; GAS PERMEATION; GAS PERMEATION PROPERTIES; HIGH PERMEABILITY; HIGH PRESSURE GAS; INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; ION EXCHANGE CAPACITY; NANOCOMPOSITE MEMBRANES; PERMEATION BEHAVIOR; POLY(ETHER-BLOCK-AMIDE); POLYETHERSULFONES; POLYMER WEIGHTS; PURE GAS; PURGE GAS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEM; SOLVENT EVAPORATION; WATER SORPTION; WATER-GAS SHIFT REACTIONS; WIDE-ANGLE X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

AMIDES; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; ETHANOL; ETHERS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GASES; HEXANE; ION EXCHANGE; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCOMPOSITES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PERMEATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SORPTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES;

EID: 79952476793     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie9016495     Document Type: Article

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