Assessment of atomic force microscopy for characterization of PTFE membranes for membrane distillation (MD) process

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 295-304

  Shirazi, Mohammad Mahdi A ^a,b,c   Kargari, Ali ^c   Tabatabaei, Meisam ^b   Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi ^a   Matsuura, Takeshi ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF IRAN ABRII   (Iran)

^c AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy (AFM); Characterization; Membrane distillation (MD); Permeation flux; PTFE membranes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924590150     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2014.883576     Document Type: Article

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