A carbon nanotube wall membrane for water treatment

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Lee, Byeongho ^a   Baek, Youngbin ^a   Lee, Minwoo ^a   Jeong, Dae Hong ^a   Lee, Hong H ^a,b   Yoon, Jeyong ^a   Kim, Yong Hyup ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Soulbrain Co   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CARBENICILLIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; WATER;

ADHESION; BIOFILM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MEMBRANE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PERMEABILITY; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; BIOFOULING; MEMBRANE FILTER; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; POROSITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER TREATMENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MICROBIOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PERMEABILITY; PROCEDURES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CARBENICILLIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING TUNNELING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PERMEABILITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84929589995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8109     Document Type: Article

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