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A zinc oxide coated-chitosan tripolyphosphate (CTPP) polyelectrolyte membrane which can serve as bioactive-selective properties to improve adsorbent or the antifouling performance in membrane surface. In synthesis of CTPP membrane, the concentration of tripolyphosphate (TPP) may varied , (0.5%, 1.0% & 1.5%) at pH 5.0, where the chitosan to zinc oxide nanoparticle ratio is 8:1, 4:1 and 2:1 , with specific wider pore radius of CTPP-ZnO membrane. The membrane performance test have applied by using of methylene blue solution with a 4ppm concentration is passed or diffused through the membrane under pressure controlled by valve in 10 bar. The addition of zinc oxide reported that the interaction of methylene blue and ZnO nanoparticles mainly consider as the ionic bonding between the positively charged of ZnO and negatively charged of methylene blue (-SO3-), which led to affect in hydrophilicity of polyelectrolyte membrane with high performance as reverse transport in osmosis during performance test.