A novel approach toward fabrication of high performance thin film composite polyamide membranes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Khorshidi, Behnam ^a   Thundat, Thomas ^a   Fleck, Brian A ^a   Sadrzadeh, Mohtada ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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EID: 84988588989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep22069     Document Type: Article

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