Membrane-based nanoconfined heterogeneous catalysis for water purification: A critical review✰

QV Ly, L Cui, MB Asif, W Khan, LD Nghiem, Y Hwang… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Progress in heterogeneous advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) is hampered by several
issues including mass transfer limitation, limited diffusion of short-lived reactive oxygen …

Nanofluidics for osmotic energy conversion

Z Zhang, L Wen, L Jiang - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
The osmotic pressure difference between river water and seawater is a promising source of
renewable energy. However, current osmotic energy conversion processes show limited …

Covalent organic framework membranes for efficient separation of monovalent cations

H Wang, Y Zhai, Y Li, Y Cao, B Shi, R Li, Z Zhu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Covalent organic frameworks (COF), with rigid, highly ordered and tunable structures, can
actively manipulate the synergy of entropic selectivity and enthalpic selectivity, holding great …

Regulating ion affinity and dehydration of metal-organic framework sub-nanochannels for high-precision ion separation

RJ Mo, S Chen, LQ Huang, XL Ding, S Rafique… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Membrane consisting of ordered sub-nanochannels has been pursued in ion separation
technology to achieve applications including desalination, environment management, and …

Two-dimensional MXene membranes with biomimetic sub-nanochannels for enhanced cation sieving

R Xu, Y Kang, W Zhang, B Pan, X Zhang - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Membranes with high ion permeability and selectivity are of considerable interest for
sustainable water treatment, resource extraction and energy storage. Herein, inspired by K+ …

Angstrom-scale ion channels towards single-ion selectivity

H Zhang, X Li, J Hou, L Jiang, H Wang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Artificial ion channels with ion permeability and selectivity comparable to their biological
counterparts are highly desired for efficient separation, biosensing, and energy conversion …

Advanced lithium extraction membranes derived from tagged‐modification of polyamide networks

H Peng, X Liu, Y Su, J Li, Q Zhao - … Chemie International Edition, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Efficient Mg2+/Li+ separation is crucial to combating the lithium shortage
worldwide, yet current nanofiltration membranes suffer from low efficacy and/or poor …

Highly ion-permselective porous organic cage membranes with hierarchical channels

T Xu, B Wu, L Hou, Y Zhu, F Sheng… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Membranes of high ion permselectivity are significant for the separation of ion species at the
subnanometer scale. Here, we report porous organic cage (ie, CC3) membranes with …

Perfect confinement of crown ethers in MOF membrane for complete dehydration and fast transport of monovalent ions

T Xu, B Wu, W Li, Y Li, Y Zhu, F Sheng, Q Li, L Ge… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Fast transport of monovalent ions is imperative in selective monovalent ion separation
based on membranes. Here, we report the in situ growth of crown ether@ UiO-66 …

Electrochemical coupling in subnanometer pores/channels for rechargeable batteries

YJ Lei, L Zhao, WH Lai, Z Huang, B Sun… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Subnanometer pores/channels (SNPCs) play crucial roles in regulating electrochemical
redox reactions for rechargeable batteries. The delicately designed and tailored porous …