Superhydrophobic modification of TiO 2 nanocomposite PVDF membranes for applications in membrane distillation

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 415-416, Issue , 2012, Pages 850-863

  Razmjou, Amir ^a   Arifin, Ellen ^a   Dong, Guangxi ^a   Mansouri, Jaleh ^a,b   Chen, Vicki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fouling; Multi level hierarchical roughness; Superhydrophobic surface; Surface functionalization; Titania

Indexed keywords

ANTIFOULING; CAPILLARY FLOW POROMETRY; CONTACT ANGLE GONIOMETRY; DIRECT CONTACT MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; FLUX RECOVERY; FOULING BEHAVIOR; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; HUMIC ACID; LOW SURFACE ENERGY; LOW TEMPERATURES; MEAN PORE SIZE; MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; MEMBRANE SURFACE; MICROPOROUS; MODIFIED MEMBRANES; PURE WATER; PVDF MEMBRANE; SILANE COUPLING AGENT; STRUCTURE AND PERFORMANCE; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION; SUPER-HYDROPHOBIC SURFACES; SUPERHYDROPHOBIC; SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION; TIO; TITANIA; WATER CONTACT ANGLE; WATER-REPELLENT FILMS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; COAGULATION; CONTACT ANGLE; COUPLING AGENTS; EXPERIMENTS; FOULING; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIQUIDS; MEMBRANES; NANOCOMPOSITES; ORGANIC ACIDS; POTASSIUM IODIDE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SODIUM CHLORIDE; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

MICROFILTRATION;

CALCIUM CHLORIDE; DEUTERIUM; HUMIC ACID; HYDROGEN; HYDROXYL GROUP; NANOCOMPOSITE; PERFLUORODODECYLTRICHLOROSILANE; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE; SILANE; SILANE DERIVATIVE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; BIOFOULING; CAPILLARY; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTACT ANGLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECT CONTACT MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; DISTILLATION; ENERGY; FILM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLOW POROMETRY; FLUOROSILANIZATION; GONIOMETRY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROLYSIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; HYDROTHERAPY; LIQUID ENTRY PRESSURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; LOW TEMPERATURE HYDROTHERMAL; MATERIAL COATING; MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE FILTER; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PRECIPITATION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMOSTABILITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WATER TRANSPORT; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84864774754     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2012.06.004     Document Type: Article

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