Hot pressing of electrospun membrane composite and its influence on separation performance on thin film composite nanofiltration membrane

Desalination

Volumn 279, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 201-209

  Kaur, Satinderpal ^a,b   Barhate, Rajendrakumar ^a   Sundarrajan, Subramanian ^a   Matsuura, Takeshi ^b   Ramakrishna, Seeram ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Electrospinning; Electrospun nanofibrous membrane; Hot pressing; Interfacial polymerization; Surface roughness; Thin film composite nanofiltration membrane

Indexed keywords

APPLIED PRESSURE; BACKING MATERIALS; BUBBLE POINTS; COMPOSITE LAYER; ELECTROSPUN MEMBRANES; ELECTROSPUNS; INTERFACIAL POLYMERIZATION; NANOFIBROUS MEMBRANES; OVERLAPPING FIBERS; POLYACRYLONITRILE SOLUTION; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; PURE WATER; SEPARATION PERFORMANCE; THIN FILM COMPOSITE NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANE; THIN FILM COMPOSITES;

COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; HOT PRESSING; NANOFIBERS; NANOFILTRATION; NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACES; THIN FILMS;

NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS;

COMPOSITE; FILTRATION; MEMBRANE; POLYMERIZATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 80052367792     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2011.06.009     Document Type: Article

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