Over the past decades, water scarcity and security have significantly stimulated the
advances of reverse osmosis (RO) technology, which dominates the global desalination …

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 …

Despite several technological advancements and achievements, wastewater treatment
continues to be a fundamental global issue. The wastewater, which contains heavy metal …

Forward osmosis (FO) has gained considerable interest as an attractive membrane-based
desalination technology due to its reversible fouling and potentially low costs. Thin-film …

Polysulfone (PSF) membranes have been widely used for wastewater treatment due to their
desired properties like stability, high mechanical strength and ease of modification. The …

Membrane distillation (MD) is an emerging membrane separation technology with great
potential for desalination, wastewater treatment and volatile resource recovery. It becomes …

The recent advancements in fabricating forward osmosis (FO) membranes have shown
promising results in desalination and water treatment. Different methods have been applied …

The presence of different heavy metals such as arsenic in groundwater is evident and can
be attributed to environmental processes and anthropogenic activities. Arsenic is considered …

Plasma-enhanced synthesis and modification of polymers is a field that continues to expand
and become increasingly more sophisticated. The highly reactive processing environments …

Introduction Nanomaterials aggregation within polyamide (PA) layer of thin film
nanocomposite (TFN) membrane is found to be a common issue and can negatively affect …