Ion exchange membranes: constructing and tuning ion transport channels

P Zuo, Z Xu, Q Zhu, J Ran, L Ge, X Ge… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ion exchange membranes (IEMs) that can selectively transport ions are crucial to a variety of
applications, such as ion extraction/separation, fuel cells, redox flow batteries, and water …

Advanced ion transfer materials in electro-driven membrane processes for sustainable ion-resource extraction and recovery

Y Zhao, N Mamrol, WA Tarpeh, X Yang, C Gao… - Progress in Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
The conversion of industrial wastewater, salt-lakes and seawater into the valuable ionic
resources is a critical challenge for sustainable global development. Electro-driven …

Highly ion-permselective porous organic cage membranes with hierarchical channels

T Xu, B Wu, L Hou, Y Zhu, F Sheng… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Membranes of high ion permselectivity are significant for the separation of ion species at the
subnanometer scale. Here, we report porous organic cage (ie, CC3) membranes with …

Efficient ion sieving in covalent organic framework membranes with sub‐2‐nanometer channels

F Sheng, B Wu, X Li, T Xu, MA Shehzad… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Membranes of sub‐2‐nanometer channels show high ion transport rates, but it remains a
great challenge to design such membranes with desirable ion selectivities for ion separation …

Designing an energy-efficient multi-stage selective electrodialysis process based on high-performance materials for lithium extraction

W Wang, G Hong, Y Zhang, X Yang, N Hu… - Journal of Membrane …, 2023 - Elsevier
Membrane technologies demonstrate great promise for treating salt lake brines with high
Mg/Li mass ratios. However, current coupled membrane processes suffer from many …

Ionic dendrimer based polyamide membranes for ion separation

ZL Qiu, LF Fang, YJ Shen, WH Yu, BK Zhu… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Separating low/high-valent ions with sub-nanometer sizes is a crucial yet challenging task in
various areas (eg, within environmental, healthcare, chemical, and energy engineering) …

Imparting Ion Selectivity to Covalent Organic Framework Membranes Using de Novo Assembly for Blue Energy Harvesting

S Chen, C Zhu, W Xian, X Liu, XL Liu… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
It has long been a challenge to fabricate angstrom-sized functional pores for mimicking the
function of biological channels to afford selective transmembrane transport. In this study, we …

[HTML][HTML] Advancing ion-exchange membranes to ion-selective membranes: principles, status, and opportunities

H Fan, Y Huang, NY Yip - Frontiers of Environmental Science & …, 2023 - Springer
Ion-exchange membranes (IEMs) are utilized in numerous established, emergent, and
emerging applications for water, energy, and the environment. This article reviews the five …

Thermo‐Osmotic Energy Conversion Enabled by Covalent‐Organic‐Framework Membranes with Record Output Power Density

X Zuo, C Zhu, W Xian, QW Meng, Q Guo… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A vast amount of energy can be extracted from the untapped low‐grade heat from sources
below 100° C and the Gibbs free energy from salinity gradients. Therefore, a process for …

[HTML][HTML] Covalent organic framework nanofluidic membrane as a platform for highly sensitive bionic thermosensation

P Zhang, S Chen, C Zhu, L Hou, W Xian, X Zuo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Thermal sensation, which is the conversion of a temperature stimulus into a biological
response, is the basis of the fundamental physiological processes that occur ubiquitously in …