A facile route to enhance the water flux of a thin-film composite reverse osmosis membrane: incorporating thickness-controlled graphene oxide in a highly porous support layer

• Main Authors: Lee, Jaewoo, Jang, Jun Hee, Chae, Hee-Ro, Lee, Sang H., Lee, Chung-Hak, Park, Pyung-Kyu, Won, Young-June, Kim, In-Chul
• Other Authors: Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Mechanical energies; Film thickness
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82689; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42356
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this study, we demonstrated that a reduction in solely the concentration of the polymer solution for preparation of the support layer effectively enhances the water flux of a thin-film composite (TFC) reverse osmosis (RO) membrane. However, a decrease in the polymer concentration caused the sub-s...