Advanced electrically conductive carbon nanotubes-PVDF composite membranes with electro-promoted water treatment performance
Yongke Zhang, Jiajian Xing, Gaoliang Wei, Linhua Rao, Guangze He, Hao Du, Haiguang Zhang, Xu Wang, Shuo Chen, Xie Quan · 2025
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Description
Clean water far from big plants needs filters that resist clogging and work at small scale. Yongke Zhang and nine co-authors build a membrane that conducts electricity, by trapping carbon nanotubes inside a plastic film. Their 2025 study reports water flow rates far above those of four shop-bought membranes with like pore sizes.
The film keeps its strength and its conductivity. A weak electric charge on its surface pushes fouling matter away, which stretches the time between backwash cleanings by more than ten times against plain polymer films. A trial build shows the film can be made at factory scale. For towns that draw from dirty sources, a filter that cleans itself longer between washes could cut cost and labour in a plain way.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yongke Zhang, Jiajian Xing, Gaoliang Wei, Linhua Rao, Guangze He, Hao Du, Haiguang Zhang, Xu Wang, Shuo Chen, Xie Quan |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 65 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |