Membrane technologies have been widely applied in water treatment over the past few
decades. However, membrane fouling remains a hinderance for the widespread use of …

More than two decades after the highly-cited review on microfiltration of suspensions and
macromolecular solutions, it is time to revisit and update the fundamentals and applications …

Scaling in membrane distillation (MD) is a key issue in desalination of concentrated saline
water, where the interface property between the membrane and the feed become critical. In …

Membrane scaling is unavoidable when treating highly concentrated and even
supersaturated brine in the continuous membrane distillation (MD) process. Omniphobic …

This study investigates the potential of surface-patterned membranes in replacing the
conventional feed spacer-assisted filtration process. Two types of surface patterns, namely …

Membrane-based water treatment processes have been established as a powerful
approach for clean water production. However, despite the significant advances made in …

This paper investigates the relationship between roughness and fouling in reverse osmosis
(RO) through specially designed experimental protocols and computational fluid dynamics …

Highlights•Surface patterning of polymer membranes can be an effective strategy to improve
the device performances.•Both porous and dense membranes can be patterned via …

Patterned membranes have been attractive for the mitigation of fouling in membrane
processes, but existing patterning methods are rather in-effective in terms of scalability and …

Foulants build-up on the membrane surface followed by polarization is considered to be one
of the most critical issues that have limited the application of membranes in different …