The role of TiO2 nanoparticles to enhance membrane antifouling properties: A short review

Abstract

The incorporation of nanoparticles (NPs) to membrane has developed the membrane separation to overcome fouling and to enhance antibacterial properties of membrane. To date, Titanium Oxide (TiO2) NPs are utilized in various industrial applications and recently the development in membrane technology, owing to their superb antifouling, antibacterial, thermal and mechanical stability. This study aims to evaluate the TiO2 NPs roles to enhance the membrane quality in terms of antifouling, antibacterial properties and the membrane performance. The contribution of this study is to bring the researcher’s attention for the TiO2 NPs importance to modify the membrane characteristics to overcome the fouling issues.