{"id":14646,"date":"2019-03-12T16:29:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T08:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amtec.utm.my\/?p=14646"},"modified":"2019-03-12T16:29:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T08:29:54","slug":"development-of-novel-thin-film-nanocomposite-forward-osmosis-membranes-containing-halloysite-graphitic-carbon-nitride-nanoparticles-towards-enhanced-desalination-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/amtec\/development-of-novel-thin-film-nanocomposite-forward-osmosis-membranes-containing-halloysite-graphitic-carbon-nitride-nanoparticles-towards-enhanced-desalination-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Development of novel thin film nanocomposite forward osmosis membranes containing halloysite\/graphitic carbon nitride nanoparticles towards enhanced desalination performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M Rezaei-DashtArzhandi, MH Sarrafzadeh, PS Goh, WJ Lau, AF Ismail, MA Mohamed<\/p>\n<p>In this study, thin film nanocomposite (TFN) membranes were fabricated by incorporating highly hydrophilic halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) and self-synthesized graphitic carbon nitride (g-C<sub>3<\/sub>N<sub>4<\/sub>) nanoparticles into polysulfone-based substrate and interfacially polymerized polyamide top layer, respectively. The TFN membranes were evaluated for their performance in forward osmosis (FO) applications. The XRD, ATR-FTIR, FESEM and TEM results confirmed the successful synthesis of g-C<sub>3<\/sub>N<sub>4<\/sub> nanoparticles. The effects of nanomaterials incorporation were investigated in terms of membrane surface morphology, hydrophilicity and separation performance. When 0.05 wt\/v% of g-C<sub>3<\/sub>N<sub>4<\/sub> was added to the polyamide layer, the membrane surface contact angle was significantly reduced from 68\u00b0 in the control membrane (TFN0.0) to &lt;10\u00b0 in the TFN membrane (TFN0.05), leading to high water flux of 18.88\u202fL\/m<sup>2<\/sup>\u00b7h\u00a0\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0011916418307148\">https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0011916418307148<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M Rezaei-DashtArzhandi, MH Sarrafzadeh, PS Goh, WJ Lau, AF Ismail, MA Mohamed In this study, thin film nanocomposite (TFN) membranes were fabricated by incorporating highly hydrophilic halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) and self-synthesized graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) nanoparticles into polysulfone-based substrate and interfacially polymerized polyamide top layer, respectively. The TFN membranes were evaluated for their performance in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/amtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/amtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/amtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/amtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/amtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/amtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14647,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/amtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14646\/revisions\/14647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/amtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/amtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/amtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}