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

Ultrathin membranes are at the forefront of membrane research, offering great opportunities
in revolutionizing separations with ultrafast transport. Driven by advanced nanomaterials …

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

Composite separation membranes are essential in the fields of water treatment, mass
concentration, purification, solvent exchange, gas separation, energy storage and …

Membrane separation has enjoyed tremendous advances in relevant material and
engineering sciences, making it the fastest growing technology in water treatment. Although …

Loose nanofiltration membranes with a remarkable water permeability are highly promising
for the fractionation of dyes and salts in the treatment of textile wastewater. In this study, a …

Metal/covalent–organic framework (MOF/COF) membranes have attracted increasing
research interest and have been considered as state-of-the-art platforms applied in various …

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) hold great promise in molecular separations owing to
their robust, ordered and tunable porous network structures. Currently, the pore size of COFs …

Interlayered thin-film nanocomposite membranes (TFNi) are an emerging type of
membranes with great potential to overcome the permeability–selectivity upper bound of …

Traditional polyamide-based interfacial polymerized nanofiltration (NF) membranes exhibit
upper bound features between water permeance and salt selectivity. Breaking the limits of …