Energy-water-environment nexus is very important to attain COP21 goal, maintaining
environment temperature increase below 2° C, but unfortunately two third share of CO 2 …

The efficient handling of wastewater pollutants is a must, since they are continuously defiling
limited fresh water resources, seriously affecting the terrestrial, aquatic, and aerial flora and …

In this paper, a review of emerging desalination technologies is presented. Several
technologies for desalination of municipal and industrial wastewater have been proposed …

Providing clean and affordable water to meet human needs is a grand challenge of the 21st
century. Worldwide, water supply struggles to keep up with the fast growing demand, which …

Membrane technology offers the best options to “drought proof” mankind on an increasingly
thirsty planet by purifying seawater or used (waste) water. Although desalination by reverse …

Nanotechnology is being used to enhance conventional ceramic and polymeric water
treatment membrane materials through various avenues. Among the numerous concepts …

Reverse osmosis (RO) is currently the most important desalination technology and it is
experiencing significant growth. The objective of this paper is to review the historical and …

In the past decades, novel materials (eg, aquaporin proteins, carbon nanotubes,
nanoporous graphene and graphene oxide) have emerged as promising candidates for …

Biomimetic approaches to developing membranes for separations have seen a renewed
interest in recent years. Biomimetic membranes incorporate biological elements or borrow …

Aquaporins are water channel proteins with excellent water permeability and solute
rejection, which makes them promising for preparing high-performance biomimetic …