A novel thin film nanocomposite reverse osmosis membrane with superior anti-organic fouling affinity for water desalination

Desalination

Volumn 368, Issue , 2015, Pages 106-113

  Emadzadeh, D ^a,b   Lau, W J ^a   Rahbari Sisakht, M ^b   Daneshfar, A ^a   Ghanbari, M ^a   Mayahi, A ^d   Matsuura, T ^a,c   Ismail, A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amino functionalized titanate nanotube; Antifouling; Reverse osmosis; Thin film nanocomposite membrane; Titanium dioxide; Water treatment

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; DESALINATION; MEMBRANES; MORPHOLOGY; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES; PROCESS CONTROL; REVERSE OSMOSIS; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; WATER FILTRATION; WATER TREATMENT; YARN;

ANTIFOULING; ANTIFOULING PROPERTY; FUNCTIONALIZED TITANATE NANOTUBES; NANOTUBULAR MORPHOLOGY; SEPARATION PERFORMANCE; THIN-FILM NANOCOMPOSITES; TITANATE NANOTUBES; WATER DESALINATION;

THIN FILMS;

ANTIFOULING; COMPOSITE; DESALINATION; FILM; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; TITANIUM; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84930932972     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2014.11.019     Document Type: Article

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