Structural characterization of thin-film polyamide reverse osmosis membranes

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1442-1451

  Albo, Jonathan ^a   Hagiwara, Hideaki ^b   Yanagishita, Hiroshi ^b   Ito, Kenji ^b   Tsuru, Toshinori ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSE MATRICES; PERMEABLE REGION; POLYAMIDE MEMBRANES; PRE-TREATMENTS; SOLVENT EXCHANGES; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION; THIN-FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANE;

COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; ETHANOL; HEXANE; LOW TEMPERATURE DRYING; MEMBRANE STRUCTURES; OVENS; PORE SIZE;

ORGANIC SOLVENTS;

EID: 84893232806     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie403411w     Document Type: Article

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