Recent advances of loose nanofiltration membranes for dye/salt separation

X Feng, D Peng, J Zhu, Y Wang, Y Zhang - Separation and Purification …, 2022 - Elsevier
Loose nanofiltration (NF) is a promising method for the fractionation of dyes and salts due to
its excellent selective separation performance. Such type membrane is a potential candidate …

Thinking the future of membranes: Perspectives for advanced and new membrane materials and manufacturing processes

SP Nunes, PZ Culfaz-Emecen, GZ Ramon… - Journal of Membrane …, 2020 - Elsevier
The state-of-the-art of membrane technology is characterized by a number of mature
applications such as sterile filtration, hemodialysis, water purification and gas separation, as …

Maximizing the right stuff: The trade-off between membrane permeability and selectivity

HB Park, J Kamcev, LM Robeson, M Elimelech… - Science, 2017 - science.org
BACKGROUND Synthetic membranes are used for desalination, dialysis, sterile filtration,
food processing, dehydration of air and other industrial, medical, and environmental …

Bioinspired smart asymmetric nanochannel membranes

Z Zhang, L Wen, L Jiang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Bioinspired smart asymmetric nanochannel membranes (BSANM) have been explored
extensively to achieve the delicate ionic transport functions comparable to those of living …

Next-generation ultrafiltration membranes enabled by block polymers

N Hampu, JR Werber, WY Chan, EC Feinberg… - Acs Nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Reliable and equitable access to safe drinking water is a major and growing challenge
worldwide. Membrane separations represent one of the most promising strategies for the …

How to coordinate the trade-off between water permeability and salt rejection in nanofiltration?

R Zhang, J Tian, S Gao… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The specific separation properties of nanofiltration (NF) membranes lead to their application
in water treatment, resource recovery, food processing, and chemical and pharmaceutical …

Towards sustainable ultrafast molecular-separation membranes: from conventional polymers to emerging materials

XQ Cheng, ZX Wang, X Jiang, T Li, CH Lau… - Progress in Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
Ultrafast molecular separation (UMS) membranes are highly selective towards active
organic molecules such as antibiotics, amino acids and proteins that are 0.5–5 nm wide …

Nanopores: synergy from DNA sequencing to industrial filtration–small holes with big impact

ZS Siwy, ML Bruening, S Howorka - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanopores in thin membranes play important roles in science and industry. Single
nanopores have provided a step-change in portable DNA sequencing and understanding …

Dissipative particle dynamics simulations in colloid and Interface science: A review

KP Santo, AV Neimark - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2021 - Elsevier
Dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) is one of the most efficient mesoscale coarse-grained
methodologies for modeling soft matter systems. Here, we comprehensively review the …

When self-assembly meets interfacial polymerization

Q Shen, Q Song, Z Mai, KR Lee, T Yoshioka… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Interfacial polymerization (IP) and self-assembly are two thermodynamically different
processes involving an interface in their systems. When the two systems are incorporated …