Properties of super-hydrophobic copper and stainless steel meshes: Applications in controllable water permeation and organic solvents/water separation

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 335, Issue , 2015, Pages 107-114

  Sang, Yu Chen ^a   Albadarin, Ahmad B ^a,b   Al Muhtaseb, Ala'A H ^c   Mangwandi, Chirangano ^a   McCracken, John N ^a   Bell, Steven E J ^a   Walker, Gavin M ^a,b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^c SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Contact angle; Morphology; Organic solvents water separation; pH controllable water permeation; Pressure resistance; Super hydrophobic copper mesh

Indexed keywords

CONTACT ANGLE; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; HYDROPHOBICITY; MESH GENERATION; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; PORE SIZE; SEPARATION;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; COPPER MESHES; PRESSURE RESISTANCE; SEPARATION EFFICIENCY; STAINLESS STEEL MESH; SUPERHYDROPHOBIC; WATER CONTACT ANGLE; WATER PERMEATION;

STAINLESS STEEL;

EID: 84930480328     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2015.02.034     Document Type: Article

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