Combining fluorescence microscopy and microfluidic devices as an innovative in-situ characterization technique for thin-film (nano)composite membranes KU Leuven
Interfacially polymerized (IP) polyamide (PA) thin-film composite membranes (TFC) are dominant in desalination, wastewater treatment and other industrial separation processes thanks to their high water fluxes and unrivaled salt rejection. However, these membranes suffer a trade-off between permeance and selectivity. A promising strategy to overcome this trade-off is by incorporating fillers into the selective top-layer of TFC membranes to ...