Preparation of Chemically-Tailored Copolymer Membranes with Tunable Ion Transport Properties

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 35, 2015, Pages 19746-19754

  Qu, Siyi ^a   Dilenschneider, Theodore ^a   Phillip, William A ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

copolymer; glycidyl methacrylate; ion permeation; nanofiltration; nonsolvent induced phase separation; self assembly

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC MONOMERS; BIOPHYSICS; CARBON INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; COPOLYMERS; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FILTRATION; IONIC STRENGTH; IONS; MICROFILTRATION; NANOFILTRATION; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; PORE PRESSURE; QUAY WALLS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SODIUM SULFATE;

FUNCTIONALIZATION PROCESS; FUNCTIONALIZED MEMBRANES; GLYCIDYL METHACRYLATE; ION PERMEATION; ION-TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; NEGATIVELY CHARGED MEMBRANES; NONSOLVENT-INDUCED PHASE SEPARATION; OLIGO(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) METHYL ETHER METHACRYLATE;

MEMBRANES;

EID: 84941063757     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b05592     Document Type: Article

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