Photo-oxidative enhancement of polymeric molecular sieve membranes

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Song, Qilei ^a   Cao, Shuai ^b   Zavala Rivera, Paul ^a   Ping Lu, Li ^a   Li, Wei ^b   Ji, Yan ^a   Al Muhtaseb, Shaheen A ^c   Cheetham, Anthony K ^b   Sivaniah, Easan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; POLYMER; PROTEIN KINASE PIM 1;

MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PERMEABILITY; PHOTOOXIDATION; POLYMER; POROSITY; RADIATION BALANCE;

ARTICLE; GAS TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHOTOOXIDATION; POROSITY; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SIMULATION; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

EID: 84878689836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2942     Document Type: Article

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