Antifouling Thin-Film Composite Membranes by Controlled Architecture of Zwitterionic Polymer Brush Layer

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 2161-2169

  Liu, Caihong ^a,b   Lee, Jongho ^b   Ma, Jun ^a   Elimelech, Menachem ^b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BODY FLUIDS; COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; DENDRIMERS; FREE RADICAL REACTIONS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); MEMBRANES; POLYMERIZATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THIN FILMS; WATER TREATMENT;

ADSORPTION OF PROTEINS; CHEMICAL FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED ARCHITECTURE; ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTERS; SURFACE CHARACTERIZATION; THIN FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; THIN-FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANE;

ATOM TRANSFER RADICAL POLYMERIZATION;

ALGINIC ACID; AMPHOLYTE; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER; POLYAMIDE; POLYMER; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE;

ADSORPTION; ANTIFOULING; BACTERIUM; CHEMICAL PROCESS; COMPOSITE; FILM; IMMOBILIZATION; MEMBRANE; POLYMER; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WATER TREATMENT;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; ATOM TRANSFER RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTANCE FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMICAL FORCE MICROSCOPY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FILM; FOULING CONTROL; HYDROPHILICITY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; OSMOSIS; SIMULATION; SURFACE CHARGE; SURFACE PROPERTY; THIN FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANE; ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BIOFOULING; BOVINE; POLYMERIZATION;

BOVINAE;

ANIMALS; BIOFOULING; CATTLE; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; OSMOSIS; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS;

EID: 85020924549     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b05992     Document Type: Article

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