Polyelectrolyte and silver nanoparticle modification of microfiltration membranes to mitigate organic and bacterial fouling

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 4025-4033

  Diagne, Fatou ^a   Malaisamy, Ramamoorthy ^a   Boddie, Vic ^b   Holbrook, R David ^c   Eribo, Broderick ^b   Jones, Kimberly L ^a  

^a Howard University   (United States)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL FOULING; BIOCIDAL; BIOLOGICAL FOULING; COLONY FORMING UNITS; FLUX DECLINE; FOULANTS; HUMIC ACID; IRREVERSIBLE FOULING; MICRO-FILTRATION MEMBRANES; MODIFICATION METHODS; MODIFIED SURFACES; NEGATIVE SURFACE CHARGES; PES MEMBRANES; POLY(DIALLYLDIMETHYLAMMONIUM CHLORIDE); POLYELECTROLYTE MULTILAYER; POLYETHERSULFONE MEMBRANE; POLYSTYRENE SULFONATE; PROBLEMATIC ISSUES; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; WATER AND WASTEWATER;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHERS; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANES; MICROFILTRATION; MULTILAYER FILMS; NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC ACIDS; POLYELECTROLYTES; WATER FILTRATION;

SILVER;

HUMIC ACID; POLY(DIALLYLDIMETHYLAMMONIUM CHLORIDE); POLY(STYRENESULFONATE); POLYELECTROLYTE; POLYETHERSULFONE; SILVER NANOPARTICLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; BACTERIUM; BIOFOULING; CHLORIDE; ELECTROKINESIS; FILTRATION; MEMBRANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOULING CONTROL; FOULING ORGANISM; HYDROPHILICITY; LEACHING; MICROFILTRATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOFOULING; ELECTROLYTES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FILTRATION; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLYETHYLENES; POLYSTYRENES; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SILVER; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84859319767     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es203945v     Document Type: Article

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