From charge-mosaic to micelle self-assembly: Block copolymer membranes in the last 40 years

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 993-1003

  Nunes, Suzana Pereira ^a   Car, Anja ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMER MEMBRANE; DENSE MEMBRANE; GAS SEPARATIONS; MEMBRANE PREPARATION; NANO-POROUS FILMS; PHASE INVERSION; POROUS MEMBRANES; PREFERENTIAL DISSOLUTION;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; MICELLES; PERVAPORATION;

GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES;

EID: 84872971733     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie202870y     Document Type: Review

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