High desalination permeability, wetting and fouling resistance on superhydrophobic carbon nanotube hollow fiber membrane under self-powered electrochemical assistance

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 514, Issue , 2016, Pages 501-509

  Fan, Xinfei ^a   Liu, Yanming ^a   Quan, Xie ^a   Zhao, Huimin ^a   Chen, Shuo ^a   Yi, Gang ^a   Du, Lei ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Desalination; Electrochemistry; Hollow fiber membrane; Membrane distillation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON NANOTUBES; DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FIBERS; HYDROPHOBICITY; NANOTUBES; WATER BACTERIOLOGY; WETTING; YARN;

FOULING RESISTANCE; HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANES; LOW PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTERS; OPEN CIRCUITS; PERMEATE FLUX; SUPERHYDROPHOBIC;

MEMBRANES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER; WATER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENERGY; HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANE; HYDROPHOBICITY; PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84989963334     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2016.05.003     Document Type: Article

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