The ability to fabricate sensory systems capable of highly selective operation in complex
fluid will undoubtedly underpin key future developments in healthcare. However, the …

Over the past decades, water scarcity and security have significantly stimulated the
advances of reverse osmosis (RO) technology, which dominates the global desalination …

Composite separation membranes are essential in the fields of water treatment, mass
concentration, purification, solvent exchange, gas separation, energy storage and …

Membrane technology has been widely used in the wastewater treatment and seawater
desalination. In recent years, the reverse osmosis (RO) membrane represented by …

Membrane fouling, which arises from the nonspecific interaction between the membrane
surface and foulants, significantly impedes the efficient application of membrane technology …

Biofouling caused by the accumulation of biomolecules on sensing surfaces is one of the
major problems and challenges to realize the practical application of electrochemical …

Separating low/high-valent ions with sub-nanometer sizes is a crucial yet challenging task in
various areas (eg, within environmental, healthcare, chemical, and energy engineering) …

Forward osmosis (FO) is an osmotically driven process widely studied for water desalination,
wastewater treatment, and water reuse, as well as dilution and concentration of aqueous …

Today, it is extremely urgent to face the increasing shortage of clean and safe water
resources, determined by the exponential growth of both world population and its …

Carbon quantum dots (CQDs), a kind of zero-dimensional carbon-based nanomaterials
containing a carbon core with a tiny size of only several nanometers and a shell linked with …