Probing the hydrophobicity of commercial reverse osmosis membranes produced by interfacial polymerization using contact angle, XPS, FTIR, FE-SEM and AFM

Desalination

Volumn 278, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 387-396

  Akin, Oguz ^a   Temelli, Feral ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

FE SEM; Hydrophobicity; Interfacial polymerization; Polyamide membrane; XPS

Indexed keywords

AFM; ATR FTIR; DIFFERENT SOLVENTS; FE-SEM; FLUX RATES; FTIR; INTERFACIAL POLYMERIZATION; INTERMOLECULAR HYDROGEN BONDS; MEMBRANE EFFICIENCIES; POLYAMIDE MEMBRANE; POLYESTERAMIDES; RO MEMBRANE;

CONTACT ANGLE; HYDROGEN BONDS; HYDROPHOBICITY; OSMOSIS; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

OSMOSIS MEMBRANES;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; REACTION KINETICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 80052033223     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2011.05.053     Document Type: Article

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