Fouling reduction and retention increment of polyethersulfone nanofiltration membranes embedded by amine-functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 466, Issue , 2014, Pages 70-81

  Vatanpour, Vahid ^a,b   Esmaeili, Majid ^a,c   Farahani, Mohammad Hossein Davood Abadi ^a  

^a NATIONAL PETROCHEMICAL COMPANY   (Iran)

^b KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM INDUSTRY RIPI   (Iran)

Author keywords

Antifouling; Nanocomposite membranes; Nanofiltration; Roughness; Zeta potential

Indexed keywords

HYDROPHILICITY; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOFILTRATION; NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; ZETA POTENTIAL;

ANTIFOULING; DONNAN EXCLUSION MECHANISM; MIXED MATRIX MEMBRANES; NANO-COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; NEGATIVE SURFACE CHARGES; NEGATIVELY CHARGED SURFACES; PHASE-INVERSION METHOD; ZETA POTENTIAL MEASUREMENTS;

MICROFILTRATION;

AMINE FUNCTIONALIZED MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; NANOCOMPOSITE; POLYETHERSULFONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONTACT ANGLE; FOULING CONTROL; HYDROPHILICITY; MEMBRANE FILTER; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NANOFILTER; NANOFILTRATION; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SODIUM RETENTION; SOLUTE; SURFACE CHARGE; WATER TRANSPORT; ZETA POTENTIAL;

EID: 84900465960     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2014.04.031     Document Type: Article

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