Surface modification of a commercial thin film composite polyamide reverse osmosis membrane by carbodiimide-induced grafting with poly(ethylene glycol) derivatives

Desalination

Volumn 275, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 252-259

  Kang, Guodong ^a   Yu, Haijun ^a   Liu, Zhongnan ^a,b   Cao, Yiming ^a  

^a DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Antifouling; Carbodiimide induced grafting; Carboxylic acid groups; Polyamide reverse osmosis membrane; Surface modification

Indexed keywords

ANTIFOULING; ANTIFOULING PROPERTY; ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTANCE FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; CARBODIIMIDE-INDUCED GRAFTING; CARBOXYLIC ACID GROUPS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; COMMERCIAL POLYAMIDE; FEEDING SOLUTIONS; MEMBRANE SURFACE; MODIFIED MEMBRANES; STATIC CONTACT ANGLE; THIN FILM COMPOSITES; WATER FLUX;

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CATIONIC SURFACTANTS; CONTACT ANGLE; DYES; ETHYLENE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GLYCOLS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); OSMOSIS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THIN FILMS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

OSMOSIS MEMBRANES;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FOULING; FOURIER TRANSFORM; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 79958038779     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2011.03.007     Document Type: Article

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