Issue 40, 2013
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Chemical Communications

Nanoporous organosilica membrane for water desalination†

Yen Thien Chua,a   Chun Xiang Cynthia Lin,a   Freddy Kleitz,b   Xiu Song Zhaoa  and  Simon Smart*a  

* Corresponding authors

a The University of Queensland, School of Chemical Engineering, Brisbane St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
E-mail: s.smart@uq.edu.au
Fax: +61 7 336 54199
Tel: +61 7 3365 8591

b Department of Chemistry and Centre de Recherche sur les Matériaux Avancés (CERMA), 1045 Avenue de laMédicine, Université Laval, Québec, G1V 0A6 (QC), Canada

Abstract

Nanoporous organosilica membranes are successfully coated on porous alumina tubes and tested for desalination via membrane distillation. The membranes produced pure water (up to 13 kg m−2 h−1) across an extreme range of salt concentrations (10–150 g L−1 NaCl) at moderate temperatures (≤60 °C) without exhibiting the characteristic flux decay of competing materials.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC40434J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
18 Jan 2013
Accepted
03 Apr 2013
First published
05 Apr 2013

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 4534-4536

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Nanoporous organosilica membrane for water desalination

Y. T. Chua, C. X. C. Lin, F. Kleitz, X. S. Zhao and S. Smart, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 4534 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC40434J

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