Fabrication and performance evaluation of blood compatible hemodialysis membrane using carboxylic multiwall carbon nanotubes and low molecular weight polyvinylpyrrolidone based nanocomposites

• Main Authors: Irfan, Muhammad, Irfan, Masooma, Idris, Ani, Baig, Nadeem, Saleh, Tawfik A., Nasiri, Rozita, Iqbal, Younas, Muhammad, Nawshad, Rehman, Fozia, Khalid, Hamad
• Format: Article
• Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
• Subjects: TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/87659/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jbm.a.36566

This study focused to optimize the performance of polyethersulfone (PES) hemodialysis (HD) membrane using carboxylic functionalized multiwall carbon nanotubes (c-MWCNT) and lower molecular weight grade of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP-k30). Initially, MWCNT were chemically functionalized by acid treatme...