The development of facile, benign and energy-efficient water treatment technologies to
produce clean water presents a major societal challenge. Membrane-based separation …

Recent progress in reverse osmosis (RO) technology is not limited to RO membrane
materials, module designs and RO process optimization. It involves prior feed treatment …

Organic contaminants in wastewater have become one of the most serious environmental
problems due to their toxicity, persistence and being bio-refractory. Many efforts have been …

This paper reviews various functional materials used in desalination. Desalination of the
abundant seawater resource has emerged as a promising technology to meet the current …

Membrane technologies have been widely applied in water treatment, wastewater
reclamation and seawater desalination. Feed spacer present in spiral wound membrane …

This paper presents an overview on recent developments in fabrication of conductive
polymeric membranes for fouling prevention in water treatment and desalination. At first …

Water contamination and freshwater shortage are calling for advanced technologies of water
recycling. High performance of membrane separation has been recently obtained using …

Electrically conducting membranes (ECMs) have been reported to be efficient in fouling
prevention and destruction of aqueous chemical compounds. In the current study, highly …

Nanotechnology and nanomaterials have attracted interest due to their potential in
mitigating contemporary environmental challenges, such as the stressors imposed by …

A major problem for the operation of membrane based water treatment systems is fouling of
the membrane surface. Within industrial modules, such as spiral wound modules, feed …