Publications by authors named "David Kitto"
Bound Water Enhances the Ion Selectivity of Highly Charged Polymer Membranes.
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces
August 2024
Article Synopsis
- Scientists are working on special membranes that help treat water, recover resources, and store energy by moving charged particles, called ions.
- These membranes need to be super good at their job, especially when dealing with salty water, but they currently have problems with being both effective and affordable.
- Researchers have made new membranes that work really well in salty water, showing that more water inside these membranes helps them move ions better, which could help in creating even better membranes in the future!
Melt blowing combines extrusion of a polymer melt through orifices and attenuation of the extrudate with hot high-velocity air jets to produce nonwoven fibers in a single step. Due to its simplicity and high-throughput nature, melt blowing produces more than 10% of global nonwovens (∼$50 billion market). Semicrystalline thermoplastic feedstock, such as poly(butylene terephthalate), polyethylene, and polypropylene, have dominated the melt blowing industry because of their facile melt processability and thermal/chemical resistance; other amorphous commodity thermoplastics (e.
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