Fraunhofer FEP details roll-to-roll processing for carbon nanomembranes

By HDASHER Published

An October 30 announcement describes a continuous production route for ultrathin water-separation membranes, following earlier project work.

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What the October announcement adds

Fraunhofer FEP’s October 30 announcement describes work with CNM Technologies on ultrathin composite membranes. Deposition and electron-beam crosslinking were brought together in a continuous roll-to-roll process. The underlying Convert2Green project work preceded this announcement.

The disclosed application is water separation. Its relevance to filter manufacturing is the production route and the challenge of turning a thin functional layer into a usable composite.

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