A new nano-engineered hierarchical membrane for concurrent removal of surfactant and oil from oil-in-water nanoemulsion

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Qin, Detao ^a   Liu, Zhaoyang ^b   Bai, Hongwei ^a   Sun, Darren Delai ^c   Song, Xiaoxiao ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b HAMAD BIN KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; EMULSION; GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL; OLIVE OIL; OXIDE; SUNFLOWER OIL; SURFACTANT; VEGETABLE OIL; WATER;

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; EMULSION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WETTABILITY;

EMULSIONS; GRAPHITE; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; OLIVE OIL; OXIDES; PLANT OILS; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; WATER; WATER PURIFICATION; WETTABILITY;

EID: 84963945597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep24365     Document Type: Article

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