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Imperial College London

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Article title

High flux membranes for organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN)-Interfacial polymerization with solvent activation

Type

D - Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.memsci.2012.08.030

Title of journal

Journal of Membrane Science

Article number

Volume number

423

Issue number

First page of article

371

ISSN of journal

0376-7388

Year of publication

2012

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Additional information

The discovery of solvent activation which dramatically enhances permeance of thin film composite (TFC) membranes formed by interfacial polymerisation is reported in this paper. Aggressive solvents are used to remove partially reacted material, which is possible because the thin film is formed on a solvent stable support. The discovery was filed as PCT/GB2011/051364, subsequently licensed to Evonik MET Ltd (yuri.bouwhuis@evonik.com). The expertise in TFC membranes deriving from this work was key in securing a £2.553M project into the fundamental performance of TFC membranes from the BP International Centre for Advanced Materials (PI AGL, start 1 Oct 2012; robert.sorrell@uk.bp.com).

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Cross-referral requested

Research group

B - Chemical Engineering

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