Janus membranes: creating asymmetry for energy efficiency

HC Yang, Y Xie, J Hou, AK Cheetham… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Membranes are recognized as a key component in many environment and energy‐related
applications, but conventional membranes are challenged to satisfy the growing demand for …

Asymmetric surface engineering for Janus membranes

HN Li, J Yang, ZK Xu - Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Janus membranes show great promise toward various applications and are undergoing a
fast‐paced development in materials science. The asymmetric surface engineering on …

Janus membranes at the water-energy nexus: a critical review

L Meng, W Shi, Y Li, X Li, X Tong, Z Wang - Advances in Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Membrane technology has emerged as a highly efficient strategy for alleviating water and
energy scarcity globally. As the key component, the membrane plays a fatal role in different …

Janus membranes: exploring duality for advanced separation

HC Yang, J Hou, V Chen, ZK Xu - … Chemie International Edition, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Janus membranes are an emerging class of materials having opposing properties at an
interface. This structure results in selective and often novel transport characteristics. In this …

Janus membranes with opposing surface wettability enabling oil-to-water and water-to-oil emulsification

MB Wu, HC Yang, JJ Wang, GP Wu… - ACS applied materials & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
A Janus membrane with opposing wettability was first reported with both function of water-to-
oil and oil-to-water emulsification. This membrane is conveniently fabricated by single …

Simply realizing “water diode” Janus membranes for multifunctional smart applications

Z Wang, X Yang, Z Cheng, Y Liu, L Shao, L Jiang - Materials Horizons, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
A facile strategy for the preparation of multifunctional Janus membranes (JMs) was
proposed, and excellent controllability of the multifunctional JMs was demonstrated in water …

Superwetting Janus membranes: focusing on unidirectional transport behaviors and multiple applications

H Zhou, Z Guo - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
It should be noted that the one-way transportation of liquids is of great significance to the
separation or collection process and the manipulation of microfluids can effectively solve …

Asymmetric superwetting configuration of Janus membranes based on thiol–ene clickable silane nanospheres enabling on-demand and energy-efficient oil–water …

X Li, W Zhang, R Qu, Y Liu, Y Wei… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Emerging Janus membranes have attracted widespread attention as next-generation
separation materials due to the synergistic effect triggered by the asymmetric wettability; …

Anisotropic Janus materials: from micro-/nanostructures to applications

Z Peng, J Huang, Z Guo - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Janus materials have led to great achievements in recent years owing to their unique
asymmetric structures and properties. In this review, recent advances of Janus materials …

Universal unilateral electro-spinning/spraying strategy to construct water-unidirectional Janus membranes with well-tuned hierarchical micro/nanostructures

L Yan, X Yang, J Long, XQ Cheng, D Pan… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Janus membranes (JMs) with hierarchical micro/nanostructures were constructed by
unilaterally electro-spinning/spraying a hydrophobic polymer on various hydrophilic porous …