Recent progress in gelatin hydrogel nanocomposites for water purification and beyond

Vacuum

Volumn 146, Issue , 2017, Pages 396-408

  Thakur, Sourbh ^a   Govender, Penny P ^a   Mamo, Messai A ^a   Tamulevicius, Sigitas ^b   Thakur, Vijay Kumar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^b KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

^c CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomedical applications; Gelatin; Hydrogel; Nanocomposite; Water treatment

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METALS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT;

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; GELATIN; GELATIN HYDROGELS; HYBRID HYDROGELS; HYDROGEL NANOCOMPOSITES; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER PURIFICATION;

HYDROGELS;

EID: 85020210390     PISSN: 0042207X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vacuum.2017.05.032     Document Type: Article

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