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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2018
National Taiwan University, Taipei, TW;
Kuo-Lun Tung, Taipei, TW;
Allen Huang, Taipei, TW;
Liang-Hsun Chen, Taipei, TW;
Yi-Rui Chen, Taipei, TW;
Chien-Hua Chen, Taipei, TW;
Che-Chen Hsu, Taipei, TW;
Feng-Yu Tsai, Taipei, TW;
NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY, Taipei, TW;
Abstract
The present invention provides an omniphobic membrane and application thereof. The omniphobic membrane comprises a porous substrate which has a pore size between 0.4 and 2 μm, a top coat, and an interface layer between the porous substrate and the top coat, and the omniphobic membrane has a carbon/silicon ratio between 40 and 60, and a hierarchical re-entrant structure. Furthermore, both of a process for fabricating the omniphobic membrane and a method for desalination of a liquid by membrane distillation are provided in the present invention.