A thin film nanocomposite reverse osmosis membrane containing amine-functionalized carbon nanotubes

Separation and Purification Technology

Volumn 184, Issue , 2017, Pages 135-143

  Vatanpour, Vahid ^a   Safarpour, Mahdie ^b   Khataee, Alireza ^b,c   Zarrabi, Hamed ^a   Yekavalangi, Mohammad Ehsan ^a   Kavian, Mostafa ^a  

^a KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^c NEAR EAST UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Desalination; Nanostructured membrane; Reverse osmosis

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; CONTACT ANGLE; DESALINATION; HYDROPHILICITY; MAMMALS; MICROFILTRATION; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOTUBES; OSMOSIS MEMBRANES; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THIN FILMS; WATER FILTRATION;

ANTIFOULING PERFORMANCE; CONTACT ANGLE ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONALIZED CARBON NANOTUBES; FUNCTIONALIZED MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; INTERFACIAL POLYMERIZATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MEMBRANES; SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS; THIN-FILM NANOCOMPOSITES;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 85018399576     PISSN: 13835866     EISSN: 18733794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2017.04.038     Document Type: Article

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