Among current separation processes, nanofiltration (NF), besides its easy scalability, exhibits low energy consumption, environmental impact and footprint, being widely used for water treatment solvent recovery. The development of membranes NF involves perfecting the skin selective layer, sublayers support. In this work, a multilayer structure membrane is presented where layer polyamide (PA, th...

There has been growing interest to develop a reliable and repeatable method for investigating the mechanical properties of thin films and MEMS materials. In this study, the mechanical response of suspended thin film Al membranes are examined by the Membrane Deflection Experiment (MDE) and nanoindentation. The MDE tests were conducted at temperatures of 2, 27, and 60°C in order to ascertain diff...

photocatalytic membranes exhibit great potential for water treatment since they combine the filtration and photo degradation in a single unit. although blending photocatalytic nanoparticles into polymeric thin film remains the simplest method to prepare the photocatalytic membrane, the entrapped photocatalyst showed less catalytic activity due to the agglomeration and shielding effects in the p...

Accurately monitoring blood glucose in real-time is highly required for diabetes. Utilizing membrane to realize fast separation of a trace significant accurately testing glucose. In this work, we designed Janus with thin film composite structure by electrospinning polyurethane (PU) on Ca3(PO4)2-coated nylon mesh. This exhibited directional liquid transport performance and wastage reduction duri...

Interfacial polymerization of polyamide was conducted using hydrophobic and hydrophilic membrane support. The effects monomer concentration were investigated, the resulting thin-film composite membranes tested for their performance in dye removal different flow configurations. results showed that a dense layer successfully formed on support, while with very loose structure became smoother more ...