Design of Thermally Responsive Polymeric Hydrogels for Brackish Water Desalination: Effect of Architecture on Swelling, Deswelling, and Salt Rejection

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 29, 2015, Pages 15696-15706

  Ali, Wael ^a   Gebert, Beate ^b   Hennecke, Tobias ^a   Graf, Karlheinz ^a,c   Ulbricht, Mathias ^a   Gutmann, Jochen S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHES TEXTILFORSCHUNGSZENTRUM NORD WEST E V   (Germany)

^c NIEDERRHEIN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

desalination; macromolecular architecture; N isopropylacrylamide; polyelectrolyte hydrogel; sodium acrylate; thermally responsive hydrogel

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC MONOMERS; ACRYLICS; AMIDES; DEIONIZED WATER; DESALINATION; FREE RADICALS; MACROMOLECULES; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYELECTROLYTES; POLYMERS; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER FILTRATION;

MACROMOLECULAR ARCHITECTURE; N- ISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDE; POLYELECTROLYTE HYDROGELS; SODIUM ACRYLATES; THERMALLY RESPONSIVE HYDROGELS;

HYDROGELS;

EID: 84938631332     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b03878     Document Type: Article

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