Chapter 1: Introduction Alberto Figoli, Jan Hoinkis, Sacide Altinkaya, Jochen Bundschuh
Section I: Membrane development and characterization Chapter 2: Fabrication and application areas of nanocomposite flat-sheet membranes Chapter 3: Polymerizable microemulsion membranes: from basic to applications Chapter 4: The use of layer-by-layer technique in the fabrication of thin film composite membranes for water treatment Chapter 5: Stimulus-responsive nano-structured bio-hybrid membranes reactors in water treatment Chapter 6: Study of carbon nanotubes’ embedment into porous polymeric membranes for waste-water treatment Chapter 7: Effects of the solvent ratio on carbon nanotube blended polymeric membranes Chapter 8: Photocatalytic activity and synthesis procedures of TiO2 nanoparticles for potential applications in membranes Chapter 9: Application of nano-sized TiO2 in membrane technology Chapter 10: Nanosized metal oxides (NMOs) and polyoxometalates (POMs) for antibacterial water treatment Chapter 11: Atomic Force Microscopy investigations of filtration membranes
Section II: Modeling and simulation Chapter 12: Molecular simulations of water and ion transport through nanoporous membranes Chapter 13: Carbon nanotubes used in polymer membranes for wastewater purification: an ab-initio theoretical study
Section III: Membrane processes Chapter 14: Recovery of bioactive compounds in citrus wastewater by membrane operations Chapter 15: Integration of membrane bioreactor (MBR) treatment with nanofiltration (NF) and reverse osmosis (RO) processes for wastewater reclamation and reuse
Alberto Figoli, Jan Hoinkis, Sacide Alsoy Altinkaya, Jochen Bundschuh