Improving the performance of polyamide reverse osmosis membrane by incorporation of modified multi-walled carbon nanotubes

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 450, Issue , 2014, Pages 249-256

  Zhao, Haiyang ^a   Qiu, Shi ^a   Wu, Liguang ^b   Zhang, Lin ^a   Chen, Huanlin ^a   Gao, Congjie ^a,c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG GONGSHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c National Engineering Research Center for Liquid Separation Membrane   (China)

Author keywords

Antifouling; Antioxidative; Carbon nanotubes; Composite membrane; Reverse osmosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIFOULING; ANTIOXIDATIVE; ANTIOXIDATIVE PROPERTY; INTERFACIAL POLYMERIZATION; MEMBRANE PERFORMANCE; METAPHENYLENE DIAMINE; MODIFIED MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; NANO-COMPOSITE MEMBRANES;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; MEMBRANES; NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYAMIDES; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

LOADING;

CARBON NANOTUBE; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; NANOCOMPOSITE; POLYAMIDE;

ARTICLE; MEMBRANE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84884946806     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2013.09.014     Document Type: Article

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