Fabrication of a multi-walled carbon nanotube-deposited glass fiber air filter for the enhancement of nano and submicron aerosol particle filtration and additional antibacterial efficacy

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 4132-4138

  Park, Jae Hong ^a,d   Yoon, Ki Young ^b   Na, Hyungjoo ^a   Kim, Yang Seon ^a   Hwang, Jungho ^a   Kim, Jongbaeg ^a   Yoon, Young Hun ^c  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Hyundai Motor Co   (South Korea)

^c Korea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute (KEITI)   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibacterial; Carbon nanotube; Glass fiber filter; Nanoparticle; Spark discharge

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL PARTICLES; ANTIBACTERIAL; ANTIBACTERIAL EFFICACY; ANTIBACTERIAL TESTS; COLONY FORMING UNITS; E. COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI (E. COLI); FILTRATION EFFICIENCY; GLASS FIBER FILTER; MULTI-WALLED; NUMBER CONCENTRATION; PARTICLE FILTRATION EFFICIENCY; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PRISTINE GLASS; SCANNING MOBILITY PARTICLE SIZER; SPARK DISCHARGE; SUBMICRON AEROSOL; SUBMICRON-SIZED PARTICLES; THERMAL CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; VIABLE CELLS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CARBON FIBERS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC SPARKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIBERS; GLASS FIBERS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); POTASSIUM; TESTING;

AIR FILTERS;

CARBON NANOFIBER; GLASS FIBER; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

AEROSOL; CARBON; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DEPOSITION; FILTER; FILTRATION; PARTICLE SIZE;

AEROSOL; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CATALYSIS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FILTRATION; NANOFABRICATION; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AEROSOLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FILTRATION; GLASS; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 80051796789     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.04.060     Document Type: Article

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