Potential of a functionalised nanofibre microfiltration membrane as an antibacterial water filter

Desalination

Volumn 275, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 285-290

  Daels, N ^a   De Vrieze, S ^b   Sampers, I ^a   Decostere, B ^a   Westbroek, P ^b   Dumoulin, A ^a   Dejans, P ^a   De Clerck, K ^b   Van Hulle, S W H ^a,b  

^a Hogeschool West Vlaanderen   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Electrospinning; Nanosilver; Pathogen removal; Water filtration; WSCP

Indexed keywords

ANTIBACTERIAL WATER FILTERS; BRONOPOL; COLONY FORMING UNITS; ELECTROSPINNING TECHNIQUES; ELECTROSPUNS; FLAT SHEET MEMBRANES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL WASTEWATER; LEACHING EXPERIMENTS; MICRO-FILTRATION MEMBRANES; NANO SILVER; PATHOGEN REMOVAL; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SHORT TERM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WATER DISINFECTIONS; WSCP;

BACTERIA; DISINFECTION; ELECTROSPINNING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPERIMENTS; LEACHING; MEMBRANES; MICROFILTRATION; NANOFIBERS; WASTEWATER;

WATER FILTRATION;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DISINFECTION; FILTRATION; MEMBRANE; PATHOGEN; SILVER; WASTEWATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 79958063687     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2011.03.012     Document Type: Article

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