Recent Trends in Nanofibrous Membranes and Their Suitability for Air and Water Filtrations
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NUSNNI, National University of Singapore, 2 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore 119077, Singapore
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, 2 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore 119077, Singapore
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Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore 117602, Singapore
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King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Membranes 2011, 1(3), 232-248; https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes1030232
Received: 20 July 2011
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Revised: 14 August 2011
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Accepted: 15 August 2011
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Published: 22 August 2011
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Membranes for Health and Environmental Applications)
In recent decades, engineered membranes have become a viable separation technology for a wide range of applications in environmental, food and biomedical fields. Membranes are now competitive compared to conventional techniques such as adsorption, ion exchangers and sand filters. The main advantage of membrane technology is the fact that it works without the addition of any chemicals, with relatively high efficiency and low energy consumption with well arranged process conductions. Hence they are widely utilized in biotechnology, food and drink manufacturing, air filtration and medical uses such as dialysis for kidney failure patients. Membranes from nanofibrous materials possess high surface area to volume ratio, fine tunable pore sizes and their ease of preparation prompted both industry and academic researchers to study their use in many applications. In this paper, modern concepts and current research progress on various nanofibrous membranes, such as water and air filtration media, are presented.
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Keywords:
electrospinning; air filter media; water treatment membranes; textiles; chemical and biological contaminants; nanoparticles; micro-, ultra-, nanofiltrations
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Balamurugan, R.; Sundarrajan, S.; Ramakrishna, S. Recent Trends in Nanofibrous Membranes and Their Suitability for Air and Water Filtrations. Membranes 2011, 1, 232-248. https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes1030232
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Balamurugan R, Sundarrajan S, Ramakrishna S. Recent Trends in Nanofibrous Membranes and Their Suitability for Air and Water Filtrations. Membranes. 2011; 1(3):232-248. https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes1030232
Chicago/Turabian StyleBalamurugan, Ramalingam, Subramanian Sundarrajan, and Seeram Ramakrishna. 2011. "Recent Trends in Nanofibrous Membranes and Their Suitability for Air and Water Filtrations" Membranes 1, no. 3: 232-248. https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes1030232
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