Master curve captures the effect of domain morphology on ethanol pervaporation through block copolymer membranes

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 401-402, Issue , 2012, Pages 125-131

  Jha, Ashish K ^a   Tsang, So Ling ^a   Ozcam, Ali Evren ^a   Offeman, Richard D ^b   Balsara, Nitash P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WESTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Block copolymer; Domain structure effect; Ethanol pervaporation

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMER MEMBRANE; DOMAIN MORPHOLOGY; DOMAIN STRUCTURE; FERMENTATION BROTHS; MASTER CURVE; MICRO-PHASE; NANOSCALE MORPHOLOGY; PERMEATION DATA;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; EVAPORATION; MIXTURES; MORPHOLOGY; PERVAPORATION; POLYBUTADIENES; POLYSTYRENES;

ETHANOL;

1,3 BUTADIENE DERIVATIVE; ALCOHOL; COPOLYMER; POLYSTYRENE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CROSS LINKING; FERMENTATION; MICROTOME; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PERVAPORATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; WATER PERMEABILITY;

EID: 84858444982     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2012.01.037     Document Type: Article

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