Fouling is the beginning: upcycling biopolymer-fouled substrates for fabricating high-permeance thin-film composite polyamide membranes
Ruobin Dai, Hongyi Han, Tianlin Wang, Jiayi Li, Chuyang Y. Tang, Zhiwei Wang
Abstract
Upcycling fouled microfiltration membranes for fabricating new high-pressure polyamide (PA) thin-film composite membranes <italic>via</italic> interfacial polymerization (IP) is developed.
Topics & Concepts
PermeancePolyamideThin-film composite membraneBiopolymerMembraneComposite numberMaterials scienceFoulingChemical engineeringComposite materialChemistryPolymerReverse osmosisEngineeringPermeationBiochemistryMembrane Separation TechnologiesMembrane-based Ion Separation TechniquesElectrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics