Polyamide desalination membranes: Formation, structure, and properties

V Freger, GZ Ramon - Progress in Polymer Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Empirical discovery, four decades ago, of polyamide membranes made by interfacial
polymerization revolutionized large-scale desalination and has made desalinated water …

Regulating the interfacial polymerization process toward high-performance polyamide thin-film composite reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membranes: A review

X Li, Z Wang, X Han, Y Liu, C Wang, F Yan… - Journal of Membrane …, 2021 - Elsevier
Polyamide (PA) thin-film composite (TFC) reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF)
membranes are the core elements for the membrane-based desalination technologies …

Modeling water transport in interlayered thin-film nanocomposite membranes: gutter effect vs funnel effect

F Wang, Z Yang, CY Tang - ACS ES&T Engineering, 2022 - ACS Publications
Interlayered thin-film nanocomposite (TFNi) membranes have experimentally demonstrated
a great potential for achieving major gains in water permeance over conventional thin-film …

Evolving trends in tannic acid-modified thin-film composite membranes: A comprehensive review

J Ye, X Wei, K Fan, Y Liu, S **a - Journal of Membrane Science, 2024 - Elsevier
In response to the growing demand for efficient water treatment solutions, thin-film
composite (TFC) membranes have gained prominence due to the versatility in various …

Carbon Capture Membranes Based on Amorphous Polyether Nanofilms Enabled by Thickness Confinement and Interfacial Engineering

G Zhang, V Bui, Y Yin, EHR Tsai… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Thin-film composite membranes are a leading technology for post-combustion carbon
capture, and the key challenge is to fabricate defect-free selective nanofilms as thin as …

Nanofiltration membranes with hydrophobic microfiltration substrates for robust structure stability and high water permeation flux

X Zhang, C Liu, J Yang, CY Zhu, L Zhang… - Journal of Membrane …, 2020 - Elsevier
Traditional nanofiltration membranes (NFMs) suffer from ultrafiltration substrates with low
porosity, small pore size and relatively poor solvent stability. Herein, NFMs have been …

Highly porous carbon nanotube/polysulfone nanocomposite supports for high-flux polyamide reverse osmosis membranes

TH Lee, MY Lee, HD Lee, JS Roh, HW Kim… - Journal of Membrane …, 2017 - Elsevier
Recent studies have emphasized that the surface properties of support layers in thin-film
composite (TFC) membranes play a significant role in reverse osmosis (RO) performance. In …

Thin-film composite membranes based on hyperbranched poly (ethylene oxide) for CO2/N2 separation

G Zhang, TN Tran, L Huang, E Deng, A Blevins… - Journal of Membrane …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cross-linked amorphous poly (ethylene oxide)(XLPEO) is one of the leading membrane
materials for post-combustion CO 2 capture. For example, XLPEO prepared from poly …

Evaluation of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) loading in the PVA/titanium dioxide (TiO2) thin film coating on polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membrane for the removal of textile …

S Sakarkar, S Muthukumaran, V Jegatheesan - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membrane was coated with polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)/titanium
dioxide (TiO 2) solution using dip-coating method. The effect of PVA loading (0–12 wt%) at a …

Recent progress on submicron gas-selective polymeric membranes

M Wang, J Zhao, X Wang, A Liu… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymeric membranes have been applied in industrial gas separations for decades.
Competing technologies, such as cryogenic distillation and sorption processes, require the …