Understanding water and ion transport behaviour and permeability through poly(amide) thin film composite membrane

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 487, Issue , 2015, Pages 32-39

  Gao, Weimin ^a   She, Fenghua ^a   Zhang, Juan ^a   Dumée, Ludovic F ^a   He, Li ^a   Hodgson, Peter D ^a   Kong, Lingxue ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Free energy; Membrane desalination; Molecular dynamics; Poly(amide) thin film; Water diffusion

Indexed keywords

AMIDES; COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; DESALINATION; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; FILM THICKNESS; FREE ENERGY; IONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULES; OSMOSIS MEMBRANES; PERMEATION; REVERSE OSMOSIS;

ADAPTIVE BIASING FORCES; FREE-ENERGY CALCULATIONS; INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; MEMBRANE DESALINATION; METADYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; THIN FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; TRANSMEMBRANE PRESSURES; WATER DIFFUSION;

THIN FILMS;

ION; POLYAMIDE; WATER;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; FILM; ION PERMEABILITY; ION TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE BIOLOGY; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRESSURE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SIMULATION; THICKNESS; WATER FLOW; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER TRANSPORT;

EID: 84927921506     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2015.03.052     Document Type: Article

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