Recent trends in nanofibrous membranes and their suitability for air and water filtrations

Membranes

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 232-248

  Balamurugan, Ramalingam ^a   Sundarrajan, Subramanian ^a   Ramakrishna, Seeram ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Air filter media; Chemical and biological contaminants; Electrospinning; Micro ; Nanofiltrations; Nanoparticles; Textiles; Ultra ; Water treatment membranes

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSPINNING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; FILTRATION; ION EXCHANGERS; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; MEMBRANES; MICROFILTRATION; NANOFIBERS; NANOPARTICLES; PORE SIZE; TEXTILES; WATER FILTRATION; WATER TREATMENT;

CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICALS; FILTER MEDIA; MICRO; NANOFILTRATIONS; ULTRA;

AIR FILTERS;

EID: 80053193386     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20770375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/membranes1030232     Document Type: Review

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