The potential of thin film nanocomposite membrane in reducing organic fouling in forward osmosis process by Emadzadeh, D., Lau, Woei Jye, Matsuura, T., Hilal, N., Ismail, A. F.

“…The TFN membrane always showed much higher FO water flux than the typical thin film composite TFC membrane prepared from the pristine polysulfone substrate. …”

Improving properties of thin film nanocomposite membrane through polyethyleneimine intermediate layer: a parametric study by Ng, Z. C., Lau, W. J., Wong, K. C., Ghouti, M. A. A., Ismail, A. F.

“…In this work, the polyethyleneimine (PEI)-interlayered thin film nanocomposite (iTFN) membranes were developed by establishing graphene oxide (GO)-incorporated polyamide (PA) layer atop PEI-coated polysulfone (PSf) substrate for reverse osmosis process. …”

Impacts of sodium bicarbonate and co-amine monomers on properties of thin-film composite membrane for water treatment by Origomisan, J. O., Lau, W. J., Aziz, F., Ismail, A. F., Adewuyi, A., Raji, Y. O., Lai, S. O.

“…Characterizations based on field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), Fourier transform infrared analysis (FTIR) and contact angle were carried out to provide support to the filtration results. Our findings showed that 0.5 wt% NaHCO3 was the best loading to be added to improve the membrane performance by enhancing water permeability by 37% without affecting Na2SO4 rejection. …”
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Tailoring the properties of polyamide thin film membrane with layered double hydroxide nanoclay for enhancement in water separation by Tajuddin, M. H., Yusof, N., N. Fajrina, N. Fajrina, W. Salleh, W. N., Ismail, A. F., Jaafar, J., Aziz, F.

“…As the LDH loading was increased, the contact angle decreased from 34.56° to 15.76° showing the surface hydrophilicity of membrane is improved. …”

Synthesis and characterization of thin film nanocomposite forward osmosis membrane with hydrophilic nanocomposite support to reduce internal concentration polarization by Emadzadeh, D., Lau, Woei Jye, Matsuura, T., Ismail, A. F., Rahbari-Sisakht, M.

“…Realizing that one of the most important challenges in the forward osmosis (FO) membrane is internal concentration polarization (ICP), thin film nanocomposite (TFN) membranes were prepared by incorporating different loadings of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles (ranging from 0 to 0.90 wt%) into the polysulfone (PSI) substrate in order to reduce ICP. …”

Synthesis of Titania nanotubes/polyaniline via rotating bed-plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition for enhanced visible light photodegradation by Subramaniam, M. N., Goh, P. S., Lau, W. J., Ismail, A. F., Gürsoy, M., Karaman, M.

“…This study employed rotating bed plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition technique to coat a thin polymeric film of polyaniline (PANI) onto titania nanotubes (TNT). …”

Comprehensive studies of membrane rinsing on the physicochemical properties and separation performance of TFC RO membranes by Ng, Z. C., Lau, W. J., Kartohardjono, S., Ismail, A. F.

“…Transport behaviour of thin film composite (TFC) reverse osmosis (RO) membrane is highly dependent on the physicochemical property of the uppermost polyamide (PA) layer. …”