Macro-initiator mediated surface selective functionalization of ultrafiltration membranes with anti-fouling hydrogel layers applicable to ready-to-use capillary membrane modules

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 518, Issue , 2016, Pages 328-337

  Quilitzsch, Mathias ^a   Osmond, Ronald ^a   Krug, Michaela ^b   Heijnen, Martin ^b   Ulbricht, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b Inge GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fouling; Polyzwitterionic hydrogel; Surface functionalization; Ultrafiltration membrane; Water treatment

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC MONOMERS; AMMONIUM HYDROXIDE; AMMONIUM PERSULFATE; CARBON; CHEMICAL STABILITY; FOULING; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); HYDROGELS; MEMBRANES; MICROFILTRATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONOMERS; ORGANIC CARBON; POLYPEPTIDES; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER TREATMENT;

BUTYL METHACRYLATES; CROSSLINKING POLYMERIZATION; FUNCTIONALIZED MEMBRANES; N ,N-DIMETHYLAMINOETHYLMETHACRYLATE; SELECTIVE FUNCTIONALIZATION; SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; ULTRA-FILTRATION MEMBRANES;

FILTRATION;

AMMONIUM HYDROXIDE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; N,N' METHYLENEBISACRYLAMIDE; SODIUM HYDROXIDE;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY WALL; CROSS LINKING; GELATION; HYDROGEL; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE FILTER; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84979524769     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2016.07.007     Document Type: Article

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