Antibacterial and environmentally friendly chitosan/polyvinyl alcohol blend membranes for air filtration

Zhen Wang1, Feng Yan2, Hongchang Pei1

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes/National Center for International Joint Research on Membrane Science and Technology, Tianjin Polytechnic University, Tianjin 300387, PR China; School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Polytechnic University, Tianjin 300387, PR China.

Carbohydrate Polymers
|August 11, 2018
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