Preparation and characterization of graphene oxide/TiO2 blended PES nanofiltration membrane with improved antifouling and separation performance

Desalination

Volumn 393, Issue , 2016, Pages 65-78

  Safarpour, Mahdie ^a   Vatanpour, Vahid ^b,c   Khataee, Alireza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c NATIONAL PETROCHEMICAL COMPANY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Antifouling; Blended membrane; Dye separation; Graphene oxide; Nanofiltration

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BLENDING; CONTACT ANGLE; GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE OXIDE; MAMMALS; MICROFILTRATION; NANOFILTRATION; OXIDE MINERALS; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ANTIFOULING; BLENDED MEMBRANE; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMINS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY; NANOFILTRATION PERFORMANCE; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO); SEPARATION PERFORMANCE; WATER PERMEATION RATE;

NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES;

ANTIFOULING; DYE; FILTRATION; MEMBRANE; SEPARATION;

BOVINAE;

EID: 85009318043     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2015.07.003     Document Type: Article

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