Highly porous cellulosic nanocomposite membranes with enhanced performance for forward osmosis desalination

Desalination

Volumn 381, Issue , 2016, Pages 117-125

  Dabaghian, Zoheir ^a   Rahimpour, Ahmad ^a   Jahanshahi, Mohsen ^a  

^a BABOL NOSHIRVANI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Desalination; Forward osmosis; Functionalized carbon nanofibers; Membrane

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON NANOFIBERS; DESALINATION; HYDROPHILICITY; MEMBRANES; NANOFIBERS; OSMOSIS; POROUS MATERIALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENSILE STRENGTH; WATER FILTRATION;

COMMERCIAL CELLULOSE; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; FORWARD OSMOSIS; FUNCTIONALIZED; NANO-COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; POROUS CARBON NANOFIBERS; SEAWATER DESALINATION; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER;

OSMOSIS MEMBRANES;

CARBON; CELLULOSE; COMPOSITE; DESALINATION; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; POROSITY; SEAWATER; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84950236081     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2015.12.006     Document Type: Article

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