Tailoring surface charge and wetting property for robust oil-fouling mitigation in membrane distillation

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 516, Issue , 2016, Pages 113-122

  Wang, Zhangxin ^a   Jin, Jian ^b   Hou, Deyin ^c   Lin, Shihong ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Interfacial tension; Membrane distillation; Oil fouling; Oleophobic membrane; Surface charge

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; DISTILLATION; EMULSIFICATION; EMULSIONS; FOULING; HYDROPHILICITY; MEMBRANES; POLYELECTROLYTES; SURFACE CHARGE; SURFACE TENSION;

ASSOCIATED MECHANISM; FORCE SPECTROSCOPY; FOULING MITIGATION; MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; MEMBRANE INTERACTIONS; OLEOPHOBIC; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE MEMBRANES; POSITIVELY CHARGED;

WETTING;

OIL; PETROLEUM; POLYELECTROLYTE;

ARTICLE; BIOFOULING; CONTACT ANGLE; DISTILLATION; HYDROPHILICITY; MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SURFACE CHARGE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ZETA POTENTIAL;

EID: 84975297635     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2016.06.011     Document Type: Article

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