Environmentally friendly approach for the fabrication of polyamide thin film nanocomposite membrane with enhanced antifouling and antibacterial properties

• Main Authors: Khoo, Ying Siew, Seah, Mei Qun, Lau, Woei Jye, Liang, Yong Yeow, Karaman, Mustafa, Gürsoy, Mehmet, Meng, Jianqiang, Gao, Huihui, Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier B.V. 2021
• Subjects: TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/94684/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2020.118249

In this work, we employed an environmentally friendly approach based on plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) to modify titania nanotubes (TNTs), aiming to obtain better dispersion of nanofillers in polyamide (PA) layer of thin film nanocomposite (TFN) reverse osmosis membrane. Owing to...