Photothermal regulation concerning solar harvesting and repelling has recently attracted
significant interest due to the fast-growing research focus in the areas of solar heating for …

Membrane desalination is a promising technology for addressing the global challenge of
water scarcity by augmenting fresh water supply. Continuous progress in this technology …

Current polyamide lithium extraction nanofiltration membranes are susceptible to chlorine
degradation and/or low permeance, two problems that are hard to reconcile. Here we …

The lack of access to clean water for billions of people represents a fundamental global
sustainability challenge that must be addressed. Seawater desalination using membrane …

Osmotic power, also known as 'blue energy', is produced by mixing solutions of different salt
concentrations, and represents a vast, sustainable and clean energy source. The efficiency …

Seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) is the key technology driving an energy-efficient and
cost-effective desalination process. At the center of this technology are the thin film …

Empirical discovery, four decades ago, of polyamide membranes made by interfacial
polymerization revolutionized large-scale desalination and has made desalinated water …

The successful implementation of thin-film composite membranes (TFCM) for challenging
solute-solute separations in the pharmaceutical industry requires a fine control over the …

Rational design of high-performance stable metal–organic framework (MOF) membranes is
challenging, especially for the sustainable treatment of hypersaline waters to address critical …

Solar-driven seawater desalination has attracted much attention for alleviating global
freshwater shortage, but the practical application is often limited by complicated fabrication …