Fabrication of polyethersulfone-mesoporous silica nanocomposite ultrafiltration membranes with antifouling properties

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 423-424, Issue , 2012, Pages 362-370

  Huang, Jian ^a   Zhang, Kaisong ^a   Wang, Kun ^b   Xie, Zongli ^c   Ladewig, Bradley ^b   Wang, Huanting ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antifouling; Irreversible fouling; Mesoporous silica; Nanocomposite membrane

Indexed keywords

ANTI-BIOFOULING; ANTIFOULING; ANTIFOULING PROPERTY; HYBRID MEMBRANE; INORGANIC FILLERS; IRREVERSIBLE FOULING; MEMBRANE FILTRATIONS; MEMBRANE MATERIAL; MEMBRANE SURFACE; MESOPOROUS SILICA; MESOPOROUS SILICAS; MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES; NANOCOMPOSITE MEMBRANES; PARTICLE AGGLOMERATIONS; PHASE-INVERSION METHOD; POLYETHERSULFONES; PROTEIN ADSORPTION; SILICA NANOCOMPOSITES; ULTRA-FILTRATION MEMBRANES; WATER PERMEABILITY;

ETHERS; EXPERIMENTS; MEMBRANE FOULING; MICROFILTRATION; NANOCOMPOSITES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAFILTRATION;

MEMBRANES;

ANTIFOULING AGENT; NANOCOMPOSITE; POLYETHERSULFONE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; HYDROPHILICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; THERMOSTABILITY; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER TRANSPORT;

EID: 84867744398     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2012.08.029     Document Type: Article

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