Improved performance of polyamide thin-film composite nanofiltration membrane by using polyetersulfone/polyaniline membrane as the substrate

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 493, Issue , 2015, Pages 263-274

  Zhu, Shu ^a   Zhao, Song ^a   Wang, Zhi ^a   Tian, Xinxia ^a   Shi, Mengqi ^a   Wang, Jixiao ^a   Wang, Shichang ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Nanofiltration; Performance; Polyethersulfone polyaniline; Substrate; Thin film composite membrane

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; CROSSLINKING; FILM PREPARATION; MEMBRANES; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOFILTRATION; POLYANILINE; POLYMERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS; WATER FILTRATION;

IMMERSION PRECIPITATION; INTERFACIAL POLYMERIZATION; PERFORMANCE; POLYETHERSULFONES; SEPARATION PERFORMANCE; SUBSTRATE PROPERTIES; THIN FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; THIN-FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANE;

NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES;

CHLORIDE; HEXANE; MONOMER; POLYAMIDE; POLYANILINE; POLYETHERSULFONE; TRIMESOYL CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; HYDROPHILICITY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MEMBRANE; NANOFILTRATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLYMERIZATION; POROSITY; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 84937035058     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2015.07.013     Document Type: Article

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