Nanostructured carbon-based membranes: Nitrogen doping effects on reverse osmosis performance

NPG Asia Materials

Volumn 8, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Ortiz Medina, Josue ^a   Kitano, Hiroki ^a,b   Morelos Gomez, Aaron ^a   Wang, Zhipeng ^a   Araki, Takumi ^a,c   Kang, Cheon Soo ^a   Hayashi, Takuya ^a   Takeuchi, Kenji ^a   Kawaguchi, Takeyuki ^a   Tanioka, Akihiko ^a   Cruz Silva, Rodolfo ^a   Terrones, Mauricio ^a,d   Endo, Morinobu ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kitagawa Industries Co   (Japan)

^c RESEARCH ORGANIZATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; MEMBRANES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NITROGEN; POLYMERS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SALINE WATER; WATER FILTRATION;

DESALINATION MEMBRANES; HIGH POWER IMPULSE MAGNETRON SPUTTERING (HIPIMS); MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED CARBONS; NITROGEN-DOPING EFFECTS; SALT REJECTION RATES; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION; WATER DESALINATION;

OSMOSIS MEMBRANES;

EID: 84962903613     PISSN: 18844049     EISSN: 18844057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/am.2016.27     Document Type: Article

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