High-Flux Positively Charged Nanocomposite Nanofiltration Membranes Filled with Poly(dopamine) Modified Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 6693-6700

  Zhao, Feng Yang ^a   Ji, Yan Li ^a   Weng, Xiao Dan ^b   Mi, Yi Fang ^a   Ye, Chun Chun ^a   An, Quan Fu ^a   Gao, Cong Jie ^b,c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Development Center of Water Treatment Technology   (China)

Author keywords

multiwall carbon nanotubes; nanocomposite; nanofiltration membrane; poly(dopamine); polyethyleneimine

Indexed keywords

AMINES; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; HEAVY METALS; HEXANE; MEMBRANES; METAL IONS; METALS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOFILTRATION; NANOTUBES; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; SALT REMOVAL; SOLUTIONS; THIN FILMS; WATER FILTRATION; YARN;

HEAVY METAL ION REMOVAL; MODIFIED MULTIWALL CARBON NANOTUBES; NANO-COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; POLY(DOPAMINE); POLYAMIDE THIN FILMS; POLYETHYLENEIMINE; PURE WATER PERMEABILITIES; THIN-FILM NANOCOMPOSITES;

NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES;

EID: 84962263338     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b00394     Document Type: Article

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