Electrochemical methods for water purification, ion separations, and energy conversion

MA Alkhadra, X Su, ME Suss, H Tian, EN Guyes… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Agricultural development, extensive industrialization, and rapid growth of the global
population have inadvertently been accompanied by environmental pollution. Water …

Multiscale CO2 Electrocatalysis to C2+ Products: Reaction Mechanisms, Catalyst Design, and Device Fabrication

T Yan, X Chen, L Kumari, J Lin, M Li, Q Fan… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electrosynthesis of value-added chemicals, directly from CO2, could foster achievement of
carbon neutral through an alternative electrical approach to the energy-intensive …

Rational design of mixed-matrix metal-organic framework membranes for molecular separations

SJ Datta, A Mayoral, N Murthy Srivatsa Bettahalli… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Conventional separation technologies to separate valuable commodities are energy
intensive, consuming 15% of the worldwide energy. Mixed-matrix membranes, combining …

Fluids and electrolytes under confinement in single-digit nanopores

NR Aluru, F Aydin, MZ Bazant, D Blankschtein… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Confined fluids and electrolyte solutions in nanopores exhibit rich and surprising physics
and chemistry that impact the mass transport and energy efficiency in many important …

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 …

Mechanisms and models for water transport in reverse osmosis membranes: history, critical assessment, and recent developments

M Heiranian, H Fan, L Wang, X Lu… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Water scarcity is one of the greatest societal challenges facing humanity. Reverse osmosis
(RO) desalination, a widely used membrane-based technology, has proven to be effective to …

Advancing osmotic power generation by covalent organic framework monolayer

J Yang, B Tu, G Zhang, P Liu, K Hu, J Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
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 …

Near-frictionless ion transport within triazine framework membranes

P Zuo, C Ye, Z Jiao, J Luo, J Fang, US Schubert… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The enhancement of separation processes and electrochemical technologies such as water
electrolysers,, fuel cells,, redox flow batteries, and ion-capture electrodialysis depends on …

Fluorinated metal–organic frameworks for gas separation

AE Amooghin, H Sanaeepur, R Luque… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Fluorinated metal–organic frameworks (F-MOFs) as fast-growing porous materials have
revolutionized the field of gas separation due to their tunable pore apertures, appealing …

Polyamide membranes with nanoscale ordered structures for fast permeation and highly selective ion-ion separation

C Zhao, Y Zhang, Y Jia, B Li, W Tang, C Shang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Fast permeation and effective solute-solute separation provide the opportunities for
sustainable water treatment, but they are hindered by ineffective membranes. We present …