Mohammad Reza Shirzad Kebria

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia | IIT · Department of Nanophysics

Incorporating metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) into the thin layer of thin film composite (TFC) membranes is an effective way of improving CO2/CH4 separation performance. In this study, porous PES membranes were surface-coated with a novel CO2-permeable layer consisting of CO2-philic Pebax and nickel-based MOF particles. The MOF particles were synth...

The synthesis of nanostructures with tunable antibacterial properties using green solvents at room temperature is of environmental interest, and antibacterial nanomaterials have application in the fabrication of biofouling-resistant membranes for water purification and wastewater treatment. In this study, we investigate the effect of organic ligand...

Dendrimers are a new class of polymeric materials owning unique properties such as hydrophobicity. In this study, hydrophobic hyper-branched dendritic (HB-Den) structures were synthesized via a polycondensation reaction between hydroxyl groups of boehmite and carboxylic groups of nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) and was used to improve the hydrophobicit...

Membrane technology as an emerging separation process has become competitive with other separation techniques in recent decades. Among pressure-driven and isothermal membrane processes, membrane distillation (MD) as a thermally driven process has come out to put an end to hardships of such processes like distillation. MD process can be used in a wi...

The demand to fabricate membranes much more cheaper than usual expensive methods, creates an opportunity to find low-cost and more available modifying agents for synthesizing an appropriate membrane for membrane distillation (MD) process. In this work, reactive ethylene terpolymer (RET) was applied to modify a commercial polyvinylidene fluoride (PV...

Despite the conventional desalination methods, membrane distillation (MD) with moderate temperature need, low operating pressure, and high salt rejection is a noteworthy choice for seawater desalination. In this study, a novel thin film composite (TFC) membrane with ultrathin zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF-8)/chitosan layer coated on the polyv...

This study investigates the potential of novel graphene quantum dots (GQDs)/polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) nanofibrous membranes for water desalination via air gap membrane distillation (AGMD) process. Different contents of GQDs were loaded in/on nanofibrous membrane for obtaining the desired structure for AGMD process. The resultant GQDs/PVDF nano...

This study attempted to explore the removal of two pesticides (atrazine and diazinon) from water by synthesized thin-film composite (TFC) polyamide nanofiltration (NF) membrane. Poly (piperazineamide) NF membranes were prepared by interfacial polymerization technique. In this work, the effects of addition of triethylamine (TEA) as an accelerator in...

A novel work was performed for fabrication and modification of composite nanofiltration (NF) membrane by polymerization reaction between polyethyleneimine (PEI) and triphthaloyldechloride (TPC). The main purpose of this work was water treatment. Polysulfone was the main polymer applied as substrate. The result of reaction between PEI and TPC was th...