Enhanced desalination of polyamide thin film nanocomposite incorporated with acid treated multiwalled carbon nanotube-titania nanotube hybrid

Desalination

Volumn 409, Issue , 2017, Pages 163-170

  Wan Azelee, I ^a   Goh, P S ^a   Lau, W J ^a   Ismail, A F ^a   Rezaei DashtArzhandi, M ^a   Wong, K C ^a   Subramaniam, M N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Acid treated MWCNT TNT; Reverse osmosis; Thin film nanocomposite membrane; Water desalination

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION; MEMBRANES; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOCOMPOSITES; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THIN FILMS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; WATER FILTRATION; YARN;

ACID TREATED; INTERFACIAL POLYMERIZATION; M PHENYLENEDIAMINE; POLYAMIDE THIN FILMS; THIN-FILM NANOCOMPOSITES; TRIMESOYL CHLORIDE; WATER DESALINATION; WATER PERMEABILITY;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

ACID; CARBON NANOTUBE; COMPOSITE; DESALINATION; NANOPARTICLE; REVERSE OSMOSIS;

EID: 85012240075     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2017.01.029     Document Type: Article

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