Water scarcity is one of the greatest societal challenges facing humanity. Reverse osmosis
(RO) desalination, a widely used membrane-based technology, has proven to be effective to …

Reverse osmosis (RO) and electrodialysis (ED) are the two most important membrane
technologies for water desalination and treatment. Their desalination and transport …

We performed nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) simulations and solvent
permeation experiments to unravel the mechanism of water transport in reverse osmosis …

While reverse osmosis (RO) is the leading technology to address the global challenge of
water scarcity through desalination and potable reuse of wastewater, current RO …

Organic micropollutants (OMPs) in drinking water constitute a potential risk to human health;
therefore, effective removal of these pollutants is required. Nanofiltration (NF) and reverse …

Sub‐nanoporous membranes with ion selective transport functions are important for energy
utilization, environmental remediation, and fundamental bioinspired engineering. Although …

Surfactant-assisted interfacial polymerization (IP) has shown strong potential to improve the
separation performance of thin film composite polyamide membranes. A common belief is …

Despite decades of dominance in separation technology, progress in the design and
development of high-performance polymer-based membranes has been incremental …

Polymer membranes have been used extensively for Angstrom-scale separation of solutes
and molecules. However, the pore size of most polymer membranes has been considered …

Interlayered thin-film nanocomposite (TFNi) membranes have experimentally demonstrated
a great potential for achieving major gains in water permeance over conventional thin-film …