| Literature DB >> 28066987 |
Antonio Politano1, Pietro Argurio2, Gianluca Di Profio3, Vanna Sanna4, Anna Cupolillo1, Sudip Chakraborty5, Hassan A Arafat5, Efrem Curcio2,3.
Abstract
Thermoplasmonic effects notably improve the efficiency of vacuum membrane distillation, an economically sustainable tool for high-quality seawater desalination. Poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) membranes filled with spherical silver nanoparticles are used, whose size is tuned for the aim. With the addition of plasmonic nanoparticles in the membrane, the transmembrane flux increases by 11 times, and, moreover, the temperature at the membrane interface is higher than bulk temperature.Entities:
Keywords: membrane distillation; seawater desalination; surface plasmon resonances
Year: 2016 PMID: 28066987 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201603504
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Adv Mater ISSN: 0935-9648 Impact factor: 30.849