Nano gives the answer : breaking the bottleneck of internal concentration polarization with a nanofiber composite forward osmosis membrane for a high water production rate

• Main Authors: Song, Xiaoxiao, Liu, Zhaoyang, Sun, Darren Delai
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Civil engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/93861; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7520
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Scaffold-like nanofiber support layers are fabricated with an interconnected pore structure, which is superior to conventional phase-inversion support layers with tortuous sponge-like structures. This successfully breaks the intrinsic bottleneck of internal concentration polarization in forward osmo...