Pore wetting in membrane distillation: A comprehensive review

H Chamani, J Woloszyn, T Matsuura, D Rana… - Progress in Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is an emerging technology for the desalination of brines. In some
cases, liquid penetrates into the pores of the membrane, causing pore wetting. MD's …

Thin film deposition techniques for polymeric membranes–A review

MO Mavukkandy, SA McBride, DM Warsinger… - Journal of membrane …, 2020 - Elsevier
Thin film deposition (TFD) allows for precise tuning of the chemical and physical properties
of a membrane to improve performance, including the selectivity, flux, chemical resistance …

Breaking temperature barrier: Highly thermally heat resistant polymeric membranes for sustainable water and wastewater treatment

S Mashhadikhan, R Ahmadi, AE Amooghin… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, high-temperature water/wastewater treatment has become an emerging
area of high priority interest for industries such as oil and gas, food production, and power …

Understanding the impact of membrane properties and transport phenomena on the energetic performance of membrane distillation desalination

A Deshmukh, M Elimelech - Journal of Membrane Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) is a thermal desalination process that is
capable of treating high salinity waters using low-grade heat. As a water treatment process …

Hydrophobicity versus pore size: polymer coatings to improve membrane wetting resistance for membrane distillation

AL McGaughey, P Karandikar, M Gupta… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Initiated chemical vapor deposition (iCVD) was used to coat two porous substrates
(hydrophilic cellulose acetate (CA) and hydrophobic polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)) with a …

Thin-film coating; historical evolution, conventional deposition technologies, stress-state micro/nano-level measurement/models and prospects projection: A critical …

SO Mbam, SE Nwonu, OA Orelaja… - Materials Research …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Several modern cutting edge technologies, including the superconducting technology,
green energy generation/storage technology, and the emerging 5G networks technology …

Anti-fouling and anti-wetting membranes for membrane distillation

S Kalla, KPS Piash, O Sanyal - Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Membrane Distillation (MD) is a thermally driven membrane separation process and shows
promising water recovery from diverse wastewater sources. While reverse osmosis (RO) …

Vapor-deposited functional polymer thin films in biological applications

A Khlyustova, Y Cheng, R Yang - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Functional polymer coatings have become ubiquitous in biological applications, ranging
from biomaterials and drug delivery to manufacturing-scale separation of biomolecules …

Inorganic fouling mitigation by salinity cycling in batch reverse osmosis

DM Warsinger, EW Tow, LA Maswadeh, GB Connors… - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
Enhanced fouling resistance has been observed in recent variants of reverse osmosis (RO)
desalination which use time-varying batch or semi-batch processes, such as closed-circuit …

Flexible membranes fabricated by initiated chemical vapor deposition for water treatment, battery, and drug delivery

Q Song, M Zhu, X Chen, T Liu, M Xie, Y Mao - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the development of advanced yet structurally complex systems, flexible membranes
have attracted increasing attention. Initiated chemical vapor deposition (iCVD), an emerging …