Zwitterion functionalized carbon nanotube/polyamide nanocomposite membranes for water desalination

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 5308-5319

  Chan, Wai Fong ^a   Chen, Hang Yan ^b   Surapathi, Anil ^a   Taylor, Michael G ^b   Shao, Xiaohong ^c   Marand, Eva ^a   Johnson, J Karl ^b,d  

^a State University   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

functionalized nanotubes; ion rejection; molecular simulation; reverse osmosis

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACID GROUPS; DESALINATION MEMBRANES; ELECTROSTATIC REPULSION; FUNCTIONALIZED CARBON NANOTUBES; FUNCTIONALIZED NANOTUBES; ION REJECTION; MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; NANO-COMPOSITE MEMBRANES;

DESALINATION; EXPERIMENTS; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; IONS; LOADING; MEMBRANES; MICROFILTRATION; NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYAMIDES; REVERSE OSMOSIS; WATER FILTRATION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; INORGANIC SALT; NANOCOMPOSITE; NYLON; WATER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; NYLONS; SALTS; WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84879675187     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4011494     Document Type: Article

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