Surface modification of commercial seawater reverse osmosis membranes by grafting of hydrophilic monomer blended with carboxylated multiwalled carbon nanotubes

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 396, Issue , 2017, Pages 1478-1489

  Vatanpour, Vahid ^a   Zoqi, Naser ^a  

^a KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Antifouling; Desalination; Grafting; Multiwalled carbon nanotubes; Polyamide reverse osmosis membrane

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC MONOMERS; BODY FLUIDS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CURING; DESALINATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); HYDROPHILICITY; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); REVERSE OSMOSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEAWATER; SURFACE TREATMENT; YARN;

ANTIFOULING; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMINS; CARBOXYLATED MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; HYDRODYNAMIC RESISTANCE; HYDROPHILIC MONOMERS; MONOMER CONCENTRATION; SEAWATER REVERSE OSMOSIS; WEIGHT PERCENTAGES;

OSMOSIS MEMBRANES;

EID: 85006789315     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2016.11.195     Document Type: Article

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