The researchers then mixed the carbon nanostructures with the networked cellulose gel and as the mixture dried, the networked cellulose shrank. The shrinking of the network cellulose in turn pressurized the nanostructures in the membrane. The resulting membrane is strong with much smaller pore sizes. Dr. Hashaikeh reports that the pore size dropped from 60 nanometers to just three nanometers with the addition of the networked cellulose in a paper describing the study, which was published in the journal Desalination last month. Co-authors from Masdar Institute include PhD student Farah Ahmad and postdoctoral researcher Boor Lalia, along with Dr. Nidal Hilal of Swansea University.

Self-Cleaning Membranes for Sustainable Desalination
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 6:22pm
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by Masdar Institute of Science and Technology

Chess I find this development very interesting especially the tie in with Lockheed and the carbon nanotubes. Back in the day I had some LMT it was very good to me!