Tailor-made polyamide membranes for water desalination

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 345-355

  Choi, Wansuk ^a   Gu, Joung Eun ^b,c   Park, Sang Hee ^a,d   Kim, Seyong ^a   Bang, Joona ^a   Baek, Kyung Youl ^d   Park, Byoungnam ^e   Lee, Jong Suk ^b   Chan, Edwin P ^f   Lee, Jung Hyun ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Research Center for Nature Environment   (South Korea)

^c Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^d Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^e Hong Ik University   (South Korea)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

molecular layer by layer; polyamide; reverse osmosis; thin film composite membrane; water desalination

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; CROSSLINKING; DESALINATION; POLYAMIDES; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THIN FILMS; WATER FILTRATION;

DESALINATION MEMBRANES; INTERFACIAL POLYMERIZATION; MOLECULAR LAYER; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEAWATER DESALINATION; THIN FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; THIN-FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANE; WATER DESALINATION;

MEMBRANES;

EID: 84921711101     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn505318v     Document Type: Article

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