Improving Permeation and Antifouling Performance of Polyamide Nanofiltration Membranes through the Incorporation of Arginine

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 9, Issue 15, 2017, Pages 13577-13586

  Fan, Lin ^a   Zhang, Qi ^a   Yang, Zhen ^a   Zhang, Runnan ^a   Liu, Ya Nan ^a   He, Mingrui ^a   Jiang, Zhongyi ^a   Su, Yanlei ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

antifouling; arginine; hydrophilicity; nanofiltration membrane; negative charge

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; ARGININE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; AZO DYES; EMULSIFICATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROPHILICITY; MEMBRANES; NANOFILTRATION; PERMEATION; POLYMERIZATION; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WATER FILTRATION;

ANTIFOULING; ANTIFOULING PERFORMANCE; HYDROPHILICITY EFFECTS; INTERFACIAL POLYMERIZATION; MODIFIED POLYAMIDES; NEGATIVE CHARGE; POLYAMIDE NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY (PAS);

NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES;

EID: 85018473282     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b00159     Document Type: Article

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