The recovery and separation of lithium by using solvent extraction methods

T Kanagasundaram, O Murphy, MN Haji… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2024 - Elsevier
Lithium, the lightest alkali metal, has been called the “new white gold” because of its limited
availability and critical importance in arising applications in clean energy, like hybrid and …

Empowering ultrathin polyamide membranes at the water–energy nexus: strategies, limitations, and future perspectives

P Sarkar, C Wu, Z Yang, CY Tang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Membrane-based separation is one of the most energy-efficient methods to meet the
growing need for a significant amount of fresh water. It is also well-known for its applications …

Towards single-species selectivity of membranes with subnanometre pores

R Epsztein, RM DuChanois, CL Ritt, A Noy… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Synthetic membranes with pores at the subnanometre scale are at the core of processes for
separating solutes from water, such as water purification and desalination. While these …

Lithium concentration from salt-lake brine by donnan-enhanced nanofiltration

ZH Foo, D Rehman, AT Bouma… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Membranes offer a scalable and cost-effective approach to ion separations for lithium
recovery. In the case of salt-lake brines, however, the high feed salinity and low pH of the …

Dehydration-enhanced ion-pore interactions dominate anion transport and selectivity in nanochannels

C Lu, C Hu, Z Chen, P Wang, F Feng, G He, F Wang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
State-of-the-art ion-selective membranes with ultrahigh precision are of significance for
water desalination and energy conservation, but their development is limited by the lack of …

Nanovehicle-assisted monomer shuttling enables highly permeable and selective nanofiltration membranes for water purification

R Dai, H Zhou, T Wang, Z Qiu, L Long, S Lin, CY Tang… - Nature Water, 2023 - nature.com
Fabricating nanofiltration membranes with high water permeance and selectivity is crucial to
efficient water purification. However, achieving such a goal with a simple and cost-effective …

Sharpening nanofiltration: strategies for enhanced membrane selectivity

H Zhang, Q He, J Luo, Y Wan… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nanofiltration plays an increasingly large role in many industrial applications, such as water
treatment (eg, desalination, water softening, and fluoride removal) and resource recovery …

Ion–ion selectivity of synthetic membranes with confined nanostructures

K Liu, R Epsztein, S Lin, J Qu, M Sun - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
Synthetic membranes featuring confined nanostructures have emerged as a prominent
category of leading materials that can selectively separate target ions from complex water …

Ultraselective and highly permeable polyamide nanofilms for ionic and molecular nanofiltration

P Sarkar, S Modak, S Karan - Advanced Functional Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Membranes with ultrahigh ion selectivity and high liquid permeance are needed to produce
high‐quality product water with increased recovery and process efficiency in water …

[HTML][HTML] Bio-based volatile fatty acid production and recovery from waste streams: Current status and future challenges

M Atasoy, I Owusu-Agyeman, E Plaza… - Bioresource technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Bio-based volatile fatty acid (VFA) production from waste-stream is getting attention due to
increasing market demand and wide range usage area as well as its cost-effective and …