Improved antifouling properties of polyamide nanofiltration membranes by reducing the density of surface carboxyl groups

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 13253-13261

  Mo, Yinghui ^a   Tiraferri, Alberto ^b   Yip, Ngai Yin ^b   Adout, Atar ^b   Huang, Xia ^a   Elimelech, Menachem ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; ACYL CHLORIDES; ADHESION FORCES; ANTIFOULING PROPERTY; CALCIUM IONS; CARBOXYL GROUPS; CLEANING EFFICIENCY; FLUX DECLINE; FOULING REVERSIBILITIES; INTERFACIAL POLYMERIZATION; INTERMOLECULAR FORCES; ISOPHTHALOYL CHLORIDE; MEMBRANE PERFORMANCE; NF MEMBRANES; ORGANIC FOULING; POLYAMIDE MEMBRANES; POLYAMIDE NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES; SECONDARY EFFLUENT; SURFACE CHARACTERIZATION; TRIMESOYL CHLORIDE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL BONDS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; EFFLUENTS; FOULING; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; MONOMERS; NANOFILTRATION; NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS;

ALGINIC ACID; CARBOXYL GROUP; CHLORIDE; ISOPHTHALOYL CHLORIDE; MONOMER; PIPERAZINE; POLYAMIDE; TRIMESOYL CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGINATE; ANTIFOULING; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CALCIUM; CARBOXYLIC ACID; EFFLUENT; MEMBRANE; POLYMERIZATION; ULTRAFILTRATION;

ARTICLE; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; DENSITY; EFFLUENT; FOULING PREVENTION; NANOFILTER; NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANE; POLYMERIZATION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ADHESIVENESS; BIOFOULING; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CHLORIDES; FILTRATION; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NYLONS; PERMEABILITY; PIPERAZINES; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84871347813     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es303673p     Document Type: Article

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