Engineering antifouling reverse osmosis membranes: A review

S Zhao, Z Liao, A Fane, J Li, C Tang, C Zheng, J Lin… - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, water scarcity and security have significantly stimulated the
advances of reverse osmosis (RO) technology, which dominates the global desalination …

Significant roles of substrate properties in forward osmosis membrane performance: A review

M Kahrizi, RR Gonzales, L Kong, H Matsuyama, P Lu… - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Forward osmosis (FO) has gained considerable interest as an attractive membrane-based
desalination technology due to its reversible fouling and potentially low costs. Thin-film …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering antiwetting hydrophobic surfaces for membrane distillation: A review

A Samadi, T Ni, E Fontananova, G Tang, H Shon… - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is an emerging membrane separation technology with great
potential for desalination, wastewater treatment and volatile resource recovery. It becomes …

Hierarchically superhydrophilic poly (vinylidene fluoride) membrane with self-cleaning fabricated by surface mineralization for stable separation of oily wastewater

F Qu, A Cao, Y Yang, S Mahmud, P Su, J Yang… - Journal of Membrane …, 2021 - Elsevier
Long-term separation of highly emulsified oily wastewater is still challenging in advanced
membrane technologies. Herein, β-FeOOH nanorods were in-situ inlaid on a hierarchically …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in electrospun polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF)-based nanofibers for sustainable energy and environmental applications

F Mokhtari, A Samadi, AO Rashed, X Li… - Progress in Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Clean energy, water, and air are all critical to the sustainable development of humanity.
Electrospun nanofibers, including nanofibrous membranes, have attracted enormous …

[HTML][HTML] Polyaniline-based adsorbents for water treatment: Roles of low-cost materials and 2D materials

A Samadi, Z Wang, S Wang, SK Nataraj, L Kong… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Access to clean water and sanitization is crucial to all life on Earth, and has been listed
among the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Adsorption is a simple and …

Potocatalytic antifouling membrane with dense nano-TiO2 coating for efficient oil-in-water emulsion separation and self-cleaning

Y Yang, Q Lai, S Mahmud, J Lu, G Zhang… - Journal of Membrane …, 2022 - Elsevier
Herein, a dense rutile nano-titanium dioxide (TiO 2) coating was constructed on the
nonwoven fabric (NWF) membrane surfaces via the bio-inspired TiO 2 sol-gel method. The …

Simple amphoteric charge strategy to reinforce superhydrophilic polyvinylidene fluoride membrane for highly efficient separation of various surfactant-stabilized oil-in …

Z Xiong, Z He, S Mahmud, Y Yang, L Zhou… - … Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Long-term efficient separation of highly emulsified oily wastewater is challenging. Reported
herein is the preparation of a reinforced superhydrophilic, underwater superoleophobic …

Super-adsorptive and photo-regenerable carbon nanotube based membrane for highly efficient water purification

Y Yang, Z Xiong, Z Wang, Y Liu, Z He, A Cao… - Journal of Membrane …, 2021 - Elsevier
Carbon nanotube (CNT) based adsorbents have attracted extensive research interest for
aqueous pollutants removal. However, such adsorbents face the problems of limited …

Efficient fenton-like catalysis boosting the antifouling performance of the heterostructured membranes fabricated via vapor-induced phase separation and in situ …

H Yang, B Zhu, L Zhu, Z Zeng, G Wang… - ACS applied materials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A photocatalytic membrane with significant degradation and antifouling performance has
become an important part in wastewater treatment. However, the low catalyst loading on the …