Energy for desalination: A state-of-the-art review

H Nassrullah, SF Anis, R Hashaikeh, N Hilal - Desalination, 2020 - Elsevier
The utilization of seawater for drinking purposes is limited by the high specific energy
consumption (SEC)(kW-h/m 3) of present desalination technologies; both thermal and …

The upper bound of thin-film composite (TFC) polyamide membranes for desalination

Z Yang, H Guo, CY Tang - Journal of Membrane Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Membrane separation properties are constrained by a tradeoff relationship between
permeability and selectivity. This tradeoff relationship has been well established for gas …

Manipulating interfacial polymerization for polymeric nanofilms of composite separation membranes

Z Wang, S Liang, Y Kang, W Zhao, Y Xia, J Yang… - Progress in Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Composite separation membranes are essential in the fields of water treatment, mass
concentration, purification, solvent exchange, gas separation, energy storage and …

Antifouling, fouling release and antimicrobial materials for surface modification of reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membranes

RR Choudhury, JM Gohil, S Mohanty… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Membrane fouling, which arises from the nonspecific interaction between the membrane
surface and foulants, significantly impedes the efficient application of membrane technology …

Recent advances in functionalized polymer membranes for biofouling control and mitigation in forward osmosis

MD Firouzjaei, SF Seyedpour, SA Aktij… - Journal of Membrane …, 2020 - Elsevier
Forward osmosis (FO) is an osmotically driven process widely studied for water desalination,
wastewater treatment, and water reuse, as well as dilution and concentration of aqueous …

Fabrication of antifouling thin-film composite nanofiltration membrane via surface grafting of polyethyleneimine followed by zwitterionic modification

L Deng, S Li, Y Qin, L Zhang, H Chen, Z Chang… - Journal of Membrane …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, antifouling thin-film composite (TFC) nanofiltration (NF) membrane having
zwitterionic PEI moieties was fabricated through the layer-by-layer interfacial polymerization …

A review on the synthesis of fully aromatic polyamide reverse osmosis membranes

S Habib, ST Weinman - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
Reverse osmosis (RO) membranes have been used for desalination for over 40 years. This
review focuses on the lab-scale synthesis of fully aromatic polyamide layers used to create …

Toward sustainable tackling of biofouling implications and improved performance of TFC FO membranes modified by Ag-MOF nanorods

SF Seyedpour, M Dadashi Firouzjaei… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
In this work, nanorods with high antibacterial properties were synthesized with silver acetate
as the metal source and 2-aminoterephthalic acid as the organic linker and were then …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in surface tailoring of thin film forward osmosis membranes: a review

J Farahbakhsh, M Golgoli, M Khiadani, M Najafi… - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
The recent advancements in fabricating forward osmosis (FO) membranes have shown
promising results in desalination and water treatment. Different methods have been applied …

Improved antifouling and antibacterial properties of forward osmosis membranes through surface modification with zwitterions and silver-based metal organic …

M Pejman, MD Firouzjaei, SA Aktij, P Das… - Journal of membrane …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study investigates the effect of surface functionalization of a thin-film composite forward
osmosis membrane with zwitterions and silver-based metal organic frameworks (Ag-MOFs) …