Nanofiltration membranes with crumpled polyamide films: a critical review on mechanisms, performances, and environmental applications

S Shao, F Zeng, L Long, X Zhu, LE Peng… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanofiltration (NF) membranes have been widely applied in many important environmental
applications, including water softening, surface/groundwater purification, wastewater …

Patterned membranes for improving hydrodynamic properties and mitigating membrane fouling in water treatment: a review

Q Wang, W Lin, S Chou, P Dai, X Huang - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Membrane technologies have been widely applied in water treatment over the past few
decades. However, membrane fouling remains a hinderance for the widespread use of …

Recent advances in nature-inspired antifouling membranes for water purification

X Zhang, J Ma, J Zheng, R Dai, X Wang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Membrane separation technologies have been widely used for water purification. However,
membrane fouling, which arises from unwanted deposition and adhesion of foulants …

The behavior of suspensions and macromolecular solutions in crossflow microfiltration: An update

JW Chew, J Kilduff, G Belfort - Journal of Membrane Science, 2020 - Elsevier
More than two decades after the highly-cited review on microfiltration of suspensions and
macromolecular solutions, it is time to revisit and update the fundamentals and applications …

Macro-corrugated and nano-patterned hierarchically structured superomniphobic membrane for treatment of low surface tension oily wastewater by membrane …

JA Kharraz, MU Farid, NK Khanzada, BJ Deka… - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
A hierarchically assembled superomniphobic membrane with three levels of reentrant
structure was designed and fabricated to enable effective treatment of low surface tension …

3D printed composite membranes with enhanced anti-fouling behaviour

A Al-Shimmery, S Mazinani, J Ji, YMJ Chew… - Journal of membrane …, 2019 - Elsevier
The fabrication of three dimensional (3D) printed composite membranes by depositing a thin
polyethersulfone (PES) selective layer onto ABS-like 3D printed flat and wavy structured …

Surface-patterning of polymeric membranes: fabrication and performance

O Heinz, M Aghajani, AR Greenberg, Y Ding - Current opinion in chemical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Surface patterning of polymer membranes can be an effective strategy to improve
the device performances.•Both porous and dense membranes can be patterned via …

Sharkskin-mimetic desalination membranes with ultralow biofouling

W Choi, C Lee, D Lee, YJ Won, GW Lee… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Biofouling is a pervasive problem for any materials that are exposed to aquatic
environments. Especially, it is a dire problem for the desalination membranes used to …

State-of-the-art surface patterned membranes fabrication and applications: A review of the current status and future directions

S Zare, A Kargari - Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 2023 - Elsevier
Foulants build-up on the membrane surface followed by polarization is considered to be one
of the most critical issues that have limited the application of membranes in different …

Profiled ion exchange membranes: A comprehensible review

S Pawlowski, JG Crespo, S Velizarov - International journal of molecular …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Profiled membranes (also known as corrugated membranes, micro-structured membranes,
patterned membranes, membranes with designed topography or notched membranes) are …