Multifunctional mechanical metamaterials based on triply periodic minimal surface lattices

O Al-Ketan, RK Abu Al-Rub - Advanced Engineering Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In nature, cellular materials exhibit enhanced multifunctionalities driven mainly by their
sophisticated topologies and length scales. These natural systems have inspired the …

State-of-the-art in heat exchanger additive manufacturing

I Kaur, P Singh - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2021 - Elsevier
The progress in additive manufacturing (AM) sector has transformed the ways in which heat
exchangers (HXs) can be fabricated. The complex and freeform designs which could not be …

Triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) porous structures: from multi-scale design, precise additive manufacturing to multidisciplinary applications

J Feng, J Fu, X Yao, Y He - International Journal of Extreme …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Inspired by natural porous architectures, numerous attempts have been made to generate
porous structures. Owing to the smooth surfaces, highly interconnected porous architectures …

State-of-the-art methods for overcoming temperature polarization in membrane distillation process: A review

A Anvari, AA Yancheshme, KM Kekre… - Journal of membrane …, 2020 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) technology has been mainly used as a treatment method for
saline or contaminated wastewater. Despite the rapid progress in material engineering and …

[HTML][HTML] Can emerging membrane-based desalination technologies replace reverse osmosis?

C Skuse, A Gallego-Schmid, A Azapagic, P Gorgojo - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
Growing uncertainty in the future availability of freshwater sources has led to an increase in
installations for desalination of seawater. Reverse osmosis (RO), currently the most widely …

3D printing for membrane separation, desalination and water treatment

LD Ti**g, JRC Dizon, I Ibrahim, ARN Nisay… - Applied Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Additive manufacturing or commonly known as 3D printing is driving innovation in many
industries and academic research including the water resource sector. The capability of 3D …

Membrane cleaning and pretreatments in membrane distillation–a review

A Abdel-Karim, S Leaper, C Skuse, G Zaragoza… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is an emerging thermal-based membrane technology that has
the capacity to treat a wide range of feed waters, including high salinity brines and …

A critical review of membrane wettability in membrane distillation from the perspective of interfacial interactions

H Chang, B Liu, Z Zhang, R Pawar, Z Yan… - … science & technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
Hydrophobic membranes used in membrane distillation (MD) systems are often subject to
wetting during long-term operation. Thus, it is of great importance to fully understand factors …

Membrane distillation technology for molecular separation: a review on the fouling, wetting and transport phenomena

S Yang, SA Jasim, D Bokov, S Chupradit… - Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is a thermally-driven membrane-based separation technique,
which has shown great potential of use for molecular separation in different processes like …

Understanding the fouling/scaling resistance of superhydrophobic/omniphobic membranes in membrane distillation

L Liu, Z **ao, Y Liu, X Li, H Yin, A Volkov, T He - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation has shown great promises in desalinating various water streams.
Significant progresses have been made in the past decades owing to the development of …