Membrane technologies have been widely applied in water treatment over the past few
decades. However, membrane fouling remains a hinderance for the widespread use of …

Membrane-based water treatment processes have been established as a powerful
approach for clean water production. However, despite the significant advances made in …

The industrial implementation of membrane distillation (MD) is still limited due to major
barriers such as membrane wetting and low permeate flux. In this study, we fabricated a two …

More than two decades after the highly-cited review on microfiltration of suspensions and
macromolecular solutions, it is time to revisit and update the fundamentals and applications …

A hierarchically assembled superomniphobic membrane with three levels of reentrant
structure was designed and fabricated to enable effective treatment of low surface tension …

Abstract Poly (vinylidene fluoride)(PVDF) is one of the most widely used membrane forming
polymers with good processability, outstanding mechanical properties, excellent thermal …

For porous membranes, characterization of a membrane's key structural parameters, such
as average and maximum pore size, pore size distribution, pore density, pore geometry, and …

Patterned membranes have been attractive for the mitigation of fouling in membrane
processes, but existing patterning methods are rather in-effective in terms of scalability and …

In this study, PVC based hollow fiber ultrafiltration membranes incorporated with pristine and
modified silver nanoparticles were prepared by wet spinning method. Silver nanoparticles …

Fouling remains a long-standing unsolved problem that hinders the widespread use of
membrane applications in industry. This article reports the use of numerical simulations …