Current advances and opportunities in the development of nanofiltration (NF) membranes in the area of wastewater treatment, water desalination, biotechnological …

D Yadav, S Karki, PG Ingole - Journal of Environmental Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Currently, nanofiltration (NF) membranes are playing a vital role in various applications.
However, several challenges remain in their applications such as difficulty in controlling …

Boosting the performance of nanofiltration membranes in removing organic micropollutants: trade-off effect, strategy evaluation, and prospective development

Y Liu, K Wang, Z Zhou, X Wei, S Xia… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In view of the high risks brought about by organic micropollutants (OMPs), nanofiltration (NF)
processes have been playing a vital role in advanced water and wastewater treatment …

Microstructure optimization of bioderived polyester nanofilms for antibiotic desalination via nanofiltration

Y Bai, B Liu, J Li, M Li, Z Yao, L Dong, D Rao… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The successful implementation of thin-film composite membranes (TFCM) for challenging
solute-solute separations in the pharmaceutical industry requires a fine control over the …

Sharpening nanofiltration: strategies for enhanced membrane selectivity

H Zhang, Q He, J Luo, Y Wan… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nanofiltration plays an increasingly large role in many industrial applications, such as water
treatment (eg, desalination, water softening, and fluoride removal) and resource recovery …

Zwitterionic covalent organic frameworks: attractive porous host for gas separation and anhydrous proton conduction

Y Fu, Y Wu, S Chen, W Zhang, Y Zhang, T Yan… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Ionic covalent organic frameworks (COFs) consisting of an anionic or cationic skeleton and
corresponding counterions have demonstrated great potential in many application fields …

In-situ modification of nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membranes for organic micropollutants and salts removal: A review

M An, L Gutierrez, A D'Haese, L Tan, A Verliefde… - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
The thin film composite (TFC) polyamide (PA) nanofiltration (NF) and reverse osmosis (RO)
membranes are the two of the most robust technologies for the removal of organic …

Phosphonium modification leads to ultrapermeable antibacterial polyamide composite membranes with unreduced thickness

H Peng, WH Zhang, WS Hung, N Wang… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Water transport rate in network membranes is inversely correlated to thickness, thus superior
permeance is achievable with ultrathin membranes prepared by complicated methods …

Selective separation membranes for fractionating organics and salts for industrial wastewater treatment: Design strategies and process assessment

X Zhang - Journal of Membrane Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Inorganic salts are generated in nearly all chemical and allied industrial manufacturing
processes; however, most existing wastewater treatment technologies and environmental …

Fabrication of high performance Mg2+/Li+ nanofiltration membranes by surface grafting of quaternized bipyridine

Y Feng, H Peng, Q Zhao - Separation and Purification Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
A new monomer (quaternized bipyridine, QBPD) was synthesized to modify the interfacially
polymerized polyethyleneimine (PEI) membranes. The QBPD monomer, containing binary …

Recent progress of zwitterionic materials as antifouling membranes for ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, and reverse osmosis

SK Lau, WF Yong - ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2021 - ACS Publications
Numerous materials have been employed in the surface modification of membranes,
including different polymers and nanomaterials over the years. The pernicious challenges of …