Antiorganic Fouling and Low-Protein Adhesion on Reverse-Osmosis Membranes Made of Carbon Nanotubes and Polyamide Nanocomposite

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 9, Issue 37, 2017, Pages 32192-32201

  Takizawa, Yoshihiro ^a   Inukai, Shigeki ^a   Araki, Takumi ^a,b   Cruz Silva, Rodolfo ^a   Uemura, Noriko ^b   Morelos Gomez, Aaron ^a   Ortiz Medina, Josue ^a   Tejima, Syogo ^a,b   Takeuchi, Kenji ^a   Kawaguchi, Takeyuki ^a   Noguchi, Toru ^a   Hayashi, Takuya ^a   Terrones, Mauricio ^a,c   Endo, Morinobu ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RESEARCH ORGANIZATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

antifouling; carbon nanotube (CNT); molecular dynamics (MD) simulations; nanocomposite; polyamide (PA); reverse osmosis (RO) membrane

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; BODY FLUIDS; CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY; FOULING; MEMBRANES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES; PROTEINS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; WATER TREATMENT; YARN;

ANTIFOULING; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMINS; COMMERCIAL MEMBRANES; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; INTERFACIAL WATER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NANO-COMPOSITE MEMBRANES;

OSMOSIS MEMBRANES;

EID: 85029689986     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b06420     Document Type: Article

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