Progress in electrospun polymeric nanofibrous membranes for water treatment: Fabrication, modification and applications

Y Liao, CH Loh, M Tian, R Wang, AG Fane - Progress in Polymer Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Research on membrane technologies has grown exponentially to treat wastewater, recycle
polluted water and provide more freshwater. Electrospun nanofibrous membranes (ENMs) …

Biomimetic super-lyophobic and super-lyophilic materials applied for oil/water separation: a new strategy beyond nature

B Wang, W Liang, Z Guo, W Liu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Oil spills and industrial organic pollutants have induced severe water pollution and
threatened every species in the ecological system. To deal with oily water, special wettability …

Biomimetic and superwettable nanofibrous skins for highly efficient separation of oil‐in‐water emulsions

J Ge, D Zong, Q **, J Yu, B Ding - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Develo** a feasible and efficient separation membrane for the purification of highly
emulsified oily wastewater is of significance but challenging due to the critical limitations of …

Membrane fouling by emulsified oil: A review

E Tummons, Q Han, HJ Tanudjaja, CA Hejase… - Separation and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Separation of liquid–liquid emulsions is a challenging problem that has gained importance
with the development of unconventional oil resources. Large volumes of water contaminated …

Polymer-matrix nanocomposite membranes for water treatment

J Yin, B Deng - Journal of membrane science, 2015 - Elsevier
One of the grand challenges to sustain the modern society is to secure adequate water
resources of desirable quality for various designated uses. To address this challenge …

Recent advances in cellulose and chitosan based membranes for water purification: A concise review

VK Thakur, SI Voicu - Carbohydrate polymers, 2016 - Elsevier
Recently membrane technology has emerged as a new promising and pervasive technology
due to its innate advantages over traditional technologies such as adsorption, distillation …

Carbon-based nanomaterials for removal of chemical and biological contaminants from water: A review of mechanisms and applications

SC Smith, DF Rodrigues - Carbon, 2015 - Elsevier
In recent years, significant discoveries related to antimicrobial and adsorption properties of
carbon-based nanomaterials have led to new avenues for removal of various biological and …

[HTML][HTML] Electrospun nanofibrous materials: a versatile medium for effective oil/water separation

X Wang, J Yu, G Sun, B Ding - Materials today, 2016 - Elsevier
The separation of oil and water is a worldwide challenge due to the ever-increasing amount
of oily industrial wastewater and polluted oceanic waters, as well as the increasing …

Extraction of lithium with functionalized lithium ion-sieves

X Xu, Y Chen, P Wan, K Gasem, K Wang, T He… - Progress in Materials …, 2016 - Elsevier
Due to the technology advancement and the large-scale application of lithium-ion batteries
in recent years, the market demand for lithium is growing rapidly and the availability of land …

Recent progress in develo** advanced membranes for emulsified oil/water separation

Y Zhu, D Wang, L Jiang, J ** - NPG Asia materials, 2014 - nature.com
The separation of oily wastewater, especially emulsified oil/water mixtures, is a worldwide
challenge because of the large amount of oily wastewater produced in many industrial …