Recent advances in stimuli‐responsive smart membranes for nanofiltration

D Yu, X Xiao, C Shokoohi, Y Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nanofiltration membrane plays an increasingly important role in many industrial
applications, such as water treatment and resource recovery. The performance of the smart …

Electrospinning nanofibers and nanomembranes for oil/water separation

X Yan, X Xiao, C Au, S Mathur, L Huang… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Offshore oil spills, industrial oily wastewater, and domestic oil pollution are some of the most
serious global challenges, and are leading environmental causes of morbidity and mortality …

Advances in graphene oxide membranes for water treatment

F Jia, X Xiao, A Nashalian, S Shen, L Yang, Z Han… - Nano Research, 2022 - Springer
Graphene oxide (GO), a derivative of graphene, is a novel carbon material that has attracted
a lot of attention in the field of membrane materials as its ability to achieve layer-by-layer …

Special Superwetting Materials from Bioinspired to Intelligent Surface for On‐Demand Oil/Water Separation: A Comprehensive Review

Y Yang, Z Guo, W Liu - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Since superwetting surfaces have emerged, on‐demand oil/water separation materials
serve as a new direction for meeting practical needs. This new separation mode uses a …

Self-powered environmental monitoring via a triboelectric nanogenerator

A Chang, C Uy, X Xiao, J Chen - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
With air pollution increasing around 75% in the past 30 years, 80% of the globe's wasted
water flowing into Earth's oceans and rivers untreated, and more than 22 million hectares of …

Progress in hybridization of covalent organic frameworks and metal–organic frameworks

Y Deng, Y Wang, X Xiao, BJ Saucedo, Z Zhu, M Xie… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent organic frameworks (COFs) hybrid
materials are a class of porous crystalline materials that integrate MOFs and COFs with …

Elastic Janus film for wound dressings: Unidirectional biofluid transport and effectively promoting wound healing

B Xu, A Li, R Wang, J Zhang, Y Ding… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The intrinsic hydrophilicity of conventional dressings cannot achieve effective management
of excessive biofluid around the wound bed, which inevitably causes infection and hinders …

Recent advances in femtosecond laser-structured Janus membranes with asymmetric surface wettability

Z Wu, K Yin, J Wu, Z Zhu, JA Duan, J He - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Janus wettability membranes have received much attention because of their asymmetric
surface wettability. On the basis of this distinctiveness from traditional symmetrical …

Ultrafast and selective nanofiltration enabled by graphene oxide membranes with unzipped carbon nanotube networks

Z Han, X Xiao, H Qu, M Hu, C Au… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Carbon nanomaterials have proven their wide applicability in molecular separation and
water purification techniques. Here, an unzipped carbon nanotubes (CNT) embedded …

A self‐cleaning heterostructured membrane for efficient oil‐in‐water emulsion separation with stable flux

Y Cai, D Chen, N Li, Q Xu, H Li, J He… - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Lack of clean water is a major global challenge. Membrane separation technology is an
ideal choice for the treatment of industrial, domestic sewage owing to its low energy …