Empirical discovery, four decades ago, of polyamide membranes made by interfacial
polymerization revolutionized large-scale desalination and has made desalinated water …

Biomimetic and bioinspired membranes (BBMs) have garnered significant attention as
innovative platforms for membrane-based separations and purification. These membranes …

Pursuing high water permeance with ultrahigh selectivity is a longstanding objective for
nanofiltration membranes. At present, simultaneously engineering an ultrathin thickness and …

Artificial water channels are synthetic molecules that aim to mimic the structural and
functional features of biological water channels (aquaporins). Here we report on a cluster …

Ultrathin membranes with potentially high permeability are urgently demanded in water
purification. However, their facile, controllable fabrication remains a grand challenge …

Biological membranes are ideal for separations as they provide high permeability while
maintaining high solute selectivity due to the presence of specialized membrane protein …

Biomimetic ion permselective membranes with ultrahigh ion permeability and selectivity
represent a research frontier in ion separation, yet the successful fabrication of such …

Bioinspired and biomimetic membranes that contain biological transport channels or attain
their structural designs from biological systems have been through a remarkable …

Artificial water channels (AWCs) are synthetic mimics of biological water channel proteins,
aquaporins. They combine the characteristic features of aquaporins, including a …

Evolution turned aquaporins (AQPs) into the most efficient facilitators of passive water flow
through cell membranes at no expense of solute discrimination. In spite of a plethora of …