Assessment of role of morphology in gas permselectivity of membranes based on polypropylene/ethylene vinyl acetate/clay nanocomposite

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 445, Issue , 2013, Pages 76-87

  Goodarzi, Vahabodin ^a,b   Hassan Jafari, Seyed ^a   Ali Khonakdar, Hossein ^c,d   Ghalei, Behnam ^e   Mortazavi, Mehdi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c IRAN POLYMER AND PETROCHEMICAL INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

^e TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Gas permeability; Gas separation; Membrane; Morphology; Nanocomposites

Indexed keywords

CO-CONTINUOUS MORPHOLOGY; CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; GAS PERMEATION PROPERTIES; GAS PERMSELECTIVITY; GAS SEPARATIONS; GOOD CORRELATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; VINYL ACETATE CO-POLYMERS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; DROPS; GAS PERMEABILITY; GASES; LOADING; MEMBRANES; MORPHOLOGY; NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYPROPYLENES; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES;

ETHYLENE VINYL ACETATE COPOLYMER; NANOCOMPOSITE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; POLYPROPYLENE;

ARTICLE; CLAY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GAS PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLUBILITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84880119712     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2013.04.073     Document Type: Article

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