Carbon nanotube-nanoporous anodic alumina composite membranes with controllable inner diameters and surface chemistry: Influence on molecular transport and chemical selectivity

Carbon

Volumn 93, Issue , 2015, Pages 681-692

  Alsawat, Mohammed ^a   Altalhi, Tariq ^a,b   Kumeria, Tushar ^a   Santos, Abel ^a   Losic, Dusan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b TAIF UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM SHEET; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; DEPOSITION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANES; MOLECULES; PROCESS CONTROL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VAPOR DEPOSITION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; YARN;

CARBON-NANOTUBE COMPOSITES; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CHEMICAL SELECTIVITY; CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (MWCNTS); NANOPOROUS ANODIC ALUMINAS;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 84938631260     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2015.05.090     Document Type: Article

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