The upper bound of thin-film composite (TFC) polyamide membranes for desalination

Z Yang, H Guo, CY Tang - Journal of Membrane Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Membrane separation properties are constrained by a tradeoff relationship between
permeability and selectivity. This tradeoff relationship has been well established for gas …

Tailored design of nanofiltration membranes for water treatment based on synthesis–property–performance relationships

K Wang, X Wang, B Januszewski, Y Liu, D Li… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Tailored design of high-performance nanofiltration (NF) membranes is desirable because
the requirements for membrane performance, particularly ion/salt rejection and selectivity …

Nanoparticle-templated nanofiltration membranes for ultrahigh performance desalination

Z Wang, Z Wang, S Lin, H Jin, S Gao, Y Zhu… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Nanofiltration (NF) membranes with ultrahigh permeance and high rejection are highly
beneficial for efficient desalination and wastewater treatment. Improving water permeance …

Covalent organic framework membranes through a mixed-dimensional assembly for molecular separations

H Yang, L Yang, H Wang, Z Xu, Y Zhao, Y Luo… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) hold great promise in molecular separations owing to
their robust, ordered and tunable porous network structures. Currently, the pore size of COFs …

Tannic Acid/Fe3+ Nanoscaffold for Interfacial Polymerization: Toward Enhanced Nanofiltration Performance

Z Yang, Z Zhou, H Guo, Z Yao, X Ma… - … science & technology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conventional thin-film composite (TFC) membranes suffer from the trade-off relationship
between permeability and selectivity, known as the “upper bound”. In this work, we report a …

Ultrathin polyamide nanofiltration membrane fabricated on brush-painted single-walled carbon nanotube network support for ion sieving

S Gao, Y Zhu, Y Gong, Z Wang, W Fang, J Jin - ACS nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
Recently, ultrathin polyamide nanofiltration membranes fabricated on nanomaterial-based
supports have overcome the limitations of conventional supports and show greatly improved …

Covalent organic framework-modulated interfacial polymerization for ultrathin desalination membranes

J Yuan, M Wu, H Wu, Y Liu, X You, R Zhang… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The demand for thin-film composite nanofiltration membranes bearing unprecedented water
permeance and desirable salt rejection is ever increasing in desalination. Conventional …

Chlorine-resistance of reverse osmosis (RO) polyamide membranes

R Verbeke, V Gomez, IFJ Vankelecom - Progress in Polymer Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Polyamide (PA) reverse osmosis (RO) membranes suffer performance decay when exposed
to oxidizing species, limiting their lifetime and increasing operation costs. This article aims at …

Polypiperazine-amide nanofiltration membrane modified by different functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs)

SM Xue, ZL Xu, YJ Tang, CH Ji - ACS applied materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
In this work, three modified multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) with carboxyl
(MWCNT-COOH), hydroxyl (MWCNT-OH) and amino groups (MWCNT-NH), respectively …

A review on semi-aromatic polyamide TFC membranes prepared by interfacial polymerization: Potential for water treatment and desalination

JM Gohil, P Ray - Separation and Purification Technology, 2017 - Elsevier
This review centers on the reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF) membranes for
water treatment and desalination. Specifically the RO and NF membranes, whose rejection …