Assessing biofouling resistance of a polyamide reverse osmosis membrane surface-modified with a zwitterionic polymer

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 520, Issue , 2016, Pages 490-498

  Marré Tirado, Miguel Levi ^a   Bass, Maria ^b   Piatkovsky, Maria ^c   Ulbricht, Mathias ^d   Herzberg, Moshe ^c   Freger, Viatcheslav ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Long term biofouling resistance; Membranes biofouling; Short term biofouling test; Zwitterionic coating

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; BIOFOULING; CELL ADHESION; COATINGS; DESALINATION; EFFLUENTS; MEMBRANES; MICROFILTRATION; PLASTIC COATINGS; POLYMERS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SURFACE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

ANTIFOULING COATING; BIOFOULING-RESISTANCE; DESALINATION MEMBRANES; FILTRATION EXPERIMENTS; LONG-TERM EXPERIMENTS; MEMBRANE PERFORMANCE; SHORT TERM; ZWITTERIONIC POLYMERS;

FILTRATION;

AMPHOLYTE; POLYAMIDE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOFOULING; DESALINATION; EFFLUENT; FILTRATION; MEMBRANE; PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; WASTE WATER;

EID: 84982095556     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2016.07.027     Document Type: Article

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