Factors affecting the sieving behavior of anti-fouling thin-layer cross-linked hydrogel polyethersulfone composite ultrafiltration membranes

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 390-391, Issue , 2012, Pages 99-112

  Peeva, Polina Dobromirova ^a   Million, Nina ^a   Ulbricht, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anti fouling; Composite membranes; Hydrogel; Permeability; Rejection curves; Selectivity

Indexed keywords

ANTIFOULING; CROSS LINKING AGENTS; CROSS-LINKED HYDROGELS; CROSS-LINKERS; DEGREE OF GRAFTING; DEGREE OF SWELLING; HYDROGEL COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; HYDROGEL LAYERS; MEMBRANE PERFORMANCE; MEMBRANE PROPERTIES; METHYLENE BISACRYLAMIDE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT CUTOFF; POLYETHERSULFONES; PROTEIN REJECTION; REJECTION CURVES; SOLUTE REJECTION; TEST SOLUTIONS; THIN LAYERS; TRADE-OFF ANALYSIS; ULTRAFILTRATION MEMBRANES; UV IRRADIATION; WATER PERMEABILITY;

CATALYST SELECTIVITY; ETHERS; ETHYLENE; EXPERIMENTS; FOULING; GLYCOLS; HYDROGELS; IRRADIATION; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER FILTRATION;

COMPOSITE MEMBRANES;

ANTIFOULING AGENT; DEXTRAN; N,N' METHYLENEBISACRYLAMIDE; POLYETHERSULFONE;

ARTICLE; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; CROSS LINKING; HYDROGEL; MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS; ULTRAFILTRATION; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION; WATER PERMEABILITY;

EID: 84855281182     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2011.11.025     Document Type: Article

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