Climate change and its related side effects are generating a demand for innovative ways to
enhance desalination performance by adopting cost-effective and energy-efficient …

Polybenzimidazoles (PBIs) and benzimidazole-linked polymers (BILPs) have exceptional
thermal and chemical stability, and hence, their membranes were developed and used …

Increasing the roughness of polyamide surface is recognized as an effective way to enhance
their water permeability, however, this method also increases the fouling risk of the …

Forward osmosis (FO) process has been extensively considered as a potential technology
that could minimize the problems of traditional water desalination processes. Finding an …

The osmotic microbial fuel cell (OsMFC) is formed by combining forward osmosis (FO) and
microbial fuel cells (MFC). Its excellent performance undoubtedly provided a new research …

To minimize the internal polarization concentration (ICP) in FO process and improve the
structural stability of thin film composite (TFC) forward osmosis (FO) membrane, a reactable …

This study developed a new symmetric and ultrathin membrane by incorporating Schiff base
network-1 (SNW-1), which are covalent organic framework (COF) nanoparticles, as fillers in …

Forward osmosis (FO) has gained attention for its reduced fouling propensity. Traditional FO
thin-film composite membranes, akin to reverse osmosis (RO)-like FO membranes, feature a …

Currently, internal concentration polarization (ICP) and surface contamination of
conventional thin-film composite membranes have become the main factors hindering the …

The emerging self-supporting symmetric membrane has shown great promise in the field of
forward osmosis (FO) separation due to the elimination of internal concentration polarization …