Enhancement of flux and solvent stability of Matrimid® thin-film composite membranes for organic solvent nanofiltration

AIChE Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3623-3633

  Sun, Shi Peng ^a   Chung, Tai Shung ^a   Lu, Kang Jia ^a   Chan, Sui Yung ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Interfacial polymerization; Organic solvent nanofiltration; Polyimide; Stability; Thin film composite membrane

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOFILTRATION; POLYIMIDES; SOLVENTS;

CROSS-LINKED POLYIMIDES; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE (DMSO); INTERFACIAL POLYMERIZATION; LONG TERM STABILITY; MEMBRANE COMPACTION; ORGANIC SOLVENT NANOFILTRATION; ORGANIC SOLVENT NANOFILTRATION (OSN); THIN-FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANE; SOLVENT STABILITY;

ORGANIC SOLVENTS; POLYIMIDES;

EID: 84906948973     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.14558     Document Type: Article

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