Novel carbon nanotube-cellulose acetate nanocomposite membranes for water filtration applications

Desalination

Volumn 344, Issue , 2014, Pages 79-85

  El Badawi, Nouran ^a   Ramadan, Adham R ^a   Esawi, Amal M K ^a   El Morsi, Mohamed ^a,b  

^a The American University in Cairo   (Egypt)

^b AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Cellulose acetate; Multi walled carbon nanotubes; Nanocomposite membrane; Phase inversion; Water filtration

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; CELLULOSE; DEIONIZED WATER; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; GAS ADSORPTION; MEMBRANES; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCOMPOSITES; PERMEATION; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS; WATER FILTRATION;

CELLULOSE ACETATES; DIFFERENTIAL VOLUMES; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANO-COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; NITROGEN ADSORPTION; PERMEATION RATE; PHASE INVERSION; SALT RETENTION;

MICROFILTRATION;

ACETATE; ADSORPTION; CELLULOSE; COMPOSITE; FILTRATION; MEMBRANE; OXIDATION; POROSITY; PURIFICATION; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84897470136     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2014.03.005     Document Type: Article

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