Endowing anti-fouling capabilities to water treatment membranes is a key feature for their long lifetime, but it continues be challenging task. Herein, strategy preparing composite reported comprising halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) as scaffolds support ruthenium substituted polyoxometalate (Ru4POM), with the goal of using evolved O2, resulting from Ru4POM-catalyzed H2O2 dismutation, agent. Two dif...

Thermal conductivity of a material is critical parameter for using it in non-isothermal applications. The new emphasis on ion-exchange membranes as thermoelectric materials makes necessary to study the relation between thermal and structure properties. Here, through-plane different polymeric was measured by rapid experimental method simple Lee's Disc apparatus. Membranes with structures thickne...

Scanning probe microscope-enabled nanoindentation is increasingly reported as a means to assess the mechanical properties of nanoscale, compliant material volumes such as polymeric films and bio-membranes. It has been demonstrated experimentally that the Hertzian contact model developed for linear elastic materials of semi-infinite thickness fails to accurately predict the nominal elastic modul...

The removal mechanisms of four natural steroid hormones-estradiol, estrone, testosterone, and progesterone-by nanofiltration (NF) membranes were investigated. Two nanofiltration membranes with quite different permeabilities and salt retention characteristics were utilized. To better understand hormone removal mechanisms, the membrane average pore size was determined from retention data of inert...

Pervaporative desalination is an efficacious method to obtain fresh water from saline sources. High salt rejection and capacity cope with high-salt concentration solutions are important advantages of pervaporation process. To improve pervaporative performance, researches concentrate on novel membrane types. Water stable metal organic frameworks loaded membranes attract substantial attention amo...