Emerging nanotechnology-based methods for water purification: A review

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 52, Issue 22-24, 2014, Pages 4089-4101

  Ahmed, Toqeer ^a,b   Imdad, Saba ^b   Yaldram, Khwaja ^b   Butt, Noor Mohammad ^b   Pervez, Arshad ^a  

^a COMSATS Institute of Information Technology ^*  (Pakistan)

^b PRESTON UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Conventional methods; Nanofiltration; Nanomembranes; Nanoparticles; Nanosensors; Nanotechnology; Water purification

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; FILTRATION; MEMBRANE; NANOPARTICLE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PURIFICATION; SENSOR; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84879586270     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2013.801789     Document Type: Review

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