Chan, E.
(2014),
Deswelling of Ultrathin Molecular Layer-by-Layer Polyamide Water Desalination Membranes, Soft Matter, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=915377
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Deswelling of Ultrathin Molecular Layer-by-Layer Polyamide Water Desalination Membranes
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The selective layer of pressure-induced water desalination membranes is an ultrathin and highly crosslinked aromatic polyamide (PA) film that separates salt from water based on differences in diffusion coefficients. Characterizing the transport properties of the selective layer is necessary in understanding its permselective performance. However, measuring transport of ultrathin films in general is nontrivial. Here, Poroelastic Relaxation Indentation (PRI) is employed as a simple deswelling technique for measuring the transport properties of these ultrathin selective layers.Citation
Soft Matter
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thin films, membranes, water purification, poromechanics, contact mechanics, transport
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Created March 13, 2014, Updated February 19, 2017