Conclusions: Some Potential Future Nanotechnologies for Water Treatment

Functional Nanostructured Materials and Membranes for Water Treatment

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 301-311

  Duke, Mikel ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aquaporin; Carbon nanotubes; Desalination; Graphene; Metal organic framework; Nanomaterial; Nanotechnology; Polymer organic framework; Water treatment; Zeolitic imidazolate framework

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887219193     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527668502.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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