Juniper Publishers Journal of Polymer science

Authored by Marek Gryta Abstract Microporous hydrophobic membranes are applied in membrane distillation. During a long-term of module exploitation, a part of the pores is filled by water, and the membrane wetting causes that the industrial implementation of this process is hindered. Several investigators achieved promising results using the polypropylene membranes formed via TIPS method for various applications of membrane distillation. Keywords: Membrane distillation; Polypropylene membrane; Hydrophobic membrane Abbrevations: MD: Membrane Distillation; PTFE: Polytetrafluoroethylene; PP: Polypropylene PE: Polyethylene; TIPS: Thermally Induced Phase Separation Introduction Membrane distillation (MD) is an evaporation process of water through non-wetted porous membranes. In this process the salts and other non-volatile compounds present in the feed water are retained and the quality of produced distillate is close to distilled w...

Authored by Ahmed Esmail Shalan                                                                            Opinion Advanced polymeric materials have showed considerable interest over the past few decades due to their tremendous advantageous coming from the combination of conventional polymeric materials and organic conductors [1-3]. Different features like mechanical, electrical, and optical properties can be founded for advanced polymers due to their confined dimensions at the nanoscale level. Advanced conductive polymers (ACPs) with synthetically tunable hierarchical 3D network structures consider to be one of the na...