From the environmental perspective, it is essential to develop cheap, eco-friendly, and
highly efficient materials for water and wastewater treatment. In this regard, hydrogels and …

Reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membranes commonly adopt a thin film composite
(TFC) structure featuring a polyamide rejection layer formed on a porous substrate. Recent …

Membrane separation properties are constrained by a tradeoff relationship between
permeability and selectivity. This tradeoff relationship has been well established for gas …

Thin film nanocomposite (TFN) membranes, comprising nanofillers and nanoscale dense
polymeric barriers, were prepared by introducing nanomaterials into a polyamide layer …

A novel graphene oxide (GO)-based nanofiltration membrane on a highly porous
polyacrylonitrile nanofibrous mat (GO@ PAN) is prepared for water treatment applications …

Water scarcity is a pressing global challenge. Filtration with actual polymeric membranes
shows good capability for pollutant separation, but broad applications of polymeric …

Two dimensional (2 D) layered materials with special properties provide opportunities to
design energy-efficient membranes for water desalination. A negatively charged layered …

Graphene-based nanomaterials have opened a new era in the fabrication of novel
membranes with outstanding performance. In this study, we propose a new method of …

Polyamide thin film composite (PA-TFC) membranes are finding more and more popularity
in desalination via both reverse osmosis (RO) and forward osmosis (FO) process, which can …

Innovative approaches to restraint bacterial adhesion and growth on membranes are
significantly needed to avoid membrane performance decaying for biofouling. In this work, a …