How do you prepare a porous crosslinked Polyvinyl alcohol and Glutaraldehyde membrane or film?

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Mustafa Abu Ghalia

Use one of the physicals blowing agent associate with crosslinker agent. But for film applications is kind of of challenge to achieve uniform porous on PVA

Xuhua Wang

The cross- linker is used to form a porous PVA membrane. Please see the following link. This paper covets a series of cross linkers you could use.

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/12/6/960/htm

Ihsan Ur Rahman

Have a look here on this link,

Article PVA/nanocellulose nanocomposite membranes for CO2 separation...