Surface fluorination of polyamide nanofiltration membrane for enhanced antifouling property

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 455, Issue , 2014, Pages 15-23

  Li, Yafei ^a   Su, Yanlei ^a,b   Zhao, Xueting ^a   Zhang, Runnan ^a   Zhao, Jiaojiao ^a   Fan, Xiaochen ^a   Jiang, Zhongyi ^a,b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering   (China)

Author keywords

Antifouling; Fluorinated polyamine; Low surface free energy; Polyamide nanofiltration membrane; Surface grafting

Indexed keywords

ANTIFOULING; POLYAMIDE NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES; POLYAMINES; SURFACE FREE ENERGY; SURFACE GRAFTING;

EXPERIMENTS; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; FLUORINATION; FLUORINE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FREE ENERGY; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); HALOGENATION; PHOTOELECTRONS; SOLUTIONS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES;

HUMIC ACID; POLYAMIDE; PROTEIN;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY YIELD; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORINATION; FOULING CONTROL; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NANOFILTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84892640826     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2013.12.060     Document Type: Article

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