Characterization methods of thin film composite nanofiltration membranes

Separation and Purification Reviews

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 135-156

  Lau, W J ^a   Ismail, A F ^a   Goh, P S ^a   Hilal, N ^b   Ooi, B S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Characterization; Chemical and physical properties; Nanofiltration; Permeability; Selectivity; Stability; Thin film composite membrane

Indexed keywords

CATALYST SELECTIVITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STABILITY; COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; CONTACT ANGLE; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MICROFILTRATION; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOFILTRATION; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; THIN FILMS; WATER FILTRATION;

ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENT; CHARACTERIZATION METHODS; CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES; CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; EXPERIMENTAL PLANNING; FILTRATION EXPERIMENTS; THIN FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; ZETA POTENTIAL ANALYZERS;

NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES;

EID: 84907540400     PISSN: 15422119     EISSN: 15422127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15422119.2014.882355     Document Type: Review

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