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Fabrication of Polyamide Thin Layer Membranes for Water Treatment

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Polyamide membranes play an important role in water treatment applications. Accordingly, many efforts have been done to modify this kind of membranes to overcome the desired structure and performance. There’s a tendency to decrease polyamide thin layer thickness to a few nanometers, while their performance in water permeability and salt rejection improves. In this chapter we present some of the methods that lead to fabricate high performance and very thin polyamide layers for separation and treatment. In fabrication of such membranes, novel methods have been discussed. Using nanostructure layers and macromolecules, deposition of nanocomposites and vacuum filtration are some of these methods. Some other special polyamide thin layer membranes are chlorine-resistant ones which enter new co-polymers in polyamide chain structures. Finally, the most interesting kind of thin-film membranes is free-standing polyamide layer which forms in the interface of used phases without any support layer or backbone. This kind gives an opportunity to change the support after the formation of polyamide layer and subtilize its structure.

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  1. Membrane Research Laboratory, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran

    Nilufar Roozbehani & Yaghoub Mansourpanah

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Roozbehani, N., Mansourpanah, Y. (2021). Fabrication of Polyamide Thin Layer Membranes for Water Treatment. In: Kharissova, O.V., Torres-Martínez, L.M., Kharisov, B.I. (eds) Handbook of Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites for Energy and Environmental Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11155-7_139-1

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