Solute purification, solvent recovery, solvent separation in organic solvents are more and
more widely used in the chemical industries, pharmaceuticals and food processing. Fast and …

Osmosis has started discovering technical application in the develo** membrane
technologies like Forward Osmosis and Pressure-Retarded Osmosis. It is the natural motion …

The demand for thin-film composite (TFC) nanofiltration membranes with superior
permeance and high rejection is gradually increasing for seawater desalination and …

Polymer membranes typically possess a broad pore-size distribution that leads to much
lower selectivity in ion separation when compared to membranes made of crystalline porous …

Freshwater scarcity is one of the most important issues facing the world today. To address
this issue, processes have been developed to purify and desalinate water at an industrial …

Forward osmosis (FO) processes as an emerging technology, have attracted extensive
interest over the past decades. However, restricted by the trade-off in perm-selectivity and …

With the increase in water consumption, especially by the industrial and agricultural sectors,
more strategies capable of increasing the recovery and reuse of water resources have been …

Obtaining an ultrathin and high-quality skin layer on a macro-porous substrate is considered
as an obstacle for the desalted membrane fabrication, although macro-porous substrate …

The effective removal of heavy metals and phenolic pollutants from aqueous solutions has
received widespread attention in the field of wastewater treatment. In this work, a novel …

Forward osmosis (FO) offers the potential for sustainable wastewater reuse and enhance
water resource sustainability and resiliency. However, low performance of FO membranes …