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MFCNM – Modular Functionalized Ceramic Nanofiltration Membranes

  • Status
    Ongoing
  • Start date
    April 1, 2015
  • Runtime
    60 months
  • Contact
    Nathan Bowden

Traditional ceramic membranes are unsuited for organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN), therefore we developed ceramic-polymer hybrid membranes for OSN.



Alternating copolymers directly grafted to γ-alumina membranes

Motivation and Scope

Modification of ceramic membranes retains the advantages of ceramic membranes, chemical and temperature resistance, while adding surface polarity and pore size tunability.

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Grant provider

This work is part of the research programme Process Technology Fundamentals with project number 731.014.204, which is (partly) financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

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