Hydrophilic silica additives for disulfonated poly(arylene ether sulfone) random copolymer membranes

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 392-393, Issue , 2012, Pages 157-166

  Lee, Chang Hyun ^a   Xie, Wei ^b   VanHouten, Desmond ^a   McGrath, James E ^a   Freeman, Benny D ^b   Spano, Justin ^a   Wi, Sungsool ^a   Park, Chi Hoon ^c   Lee, Young Moo ^c  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Ionic conductivity; Membrane desalination; Organic inorganic nanocomposite; Silica; Water purification; Water salt selectivity

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED WATER; ACID BASE; ACIDIC HYDROXYL GROUPS; AQUEOUS CONDITION; AVERAGE SIZE; BINARY SYSTEMS; CO-POLYMER SYSTEMS; CORE SHELL STRUCTURE; DESALINATION MEMBRANES; DISPERSANTS; DISULFONATED POLY(ARYLENE ETHER SULFONE); DONNAN EXCLUSION; HYDROPHILIC SILICA; INTERCHAIN DISTANCES; ION-DIPOLE INTERACTIONS; MATRIX; MEMBRANE DESALINATION; NANOCOMPOSITE MEMBRANES; ORGANIC-INORGANIC NANOCOMPOSITES; POLAR GROUPS; POLYMER CHAINS; POLYMER MEMBRANE; POTASSIUM SALTS; RANDOM COPOLYMER; SALT REJECTIONS; WATER CHANNELS; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER PERMEATION; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER UPTAKE; WELL-DISPERSED;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CHLORINE; DESALINATION; ETHERS; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; GLASS TRANSITION; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN BONDS; HYDROPHILICITY; INORGANIC ACIDS; IONIC CONDUCTIVITY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MEMBRANES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PERMEATION; SILICA; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER FILTRATION; WATER SUPPLY;

SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

CHLORINE; COPOLYMER; DISPERSANT; DISULFONATED POLY(ARYLENE ETHER SULFONE); HYDROXYL GROUP; NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOPARTICLE; NANOSHELL; POTASSIUM SALT; SILICON DIOXIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULFONE; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESALINATION; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIPOLE; HYDROPHILICITY; MEMBRANE BIOLOGY; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM YIELD; SULFONATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER TRANSPORT;

EID: 84856090682     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2011.12.015     Document Type: Article

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