The worldwide demand for lithium has greatly increased with the rapid development of
industries especially for lithium-ion battery. As the global potential resource, salt-lake brine …

Water channels are one of the key pillars driving the development of next-generation
desalination and water treatment membranes. Over the past two decades, the rise of …

Fast permeation and effective solute-solute separation provide the opportunities for
sustainable water treatment, but they are hindered by ineffective membranes. We present …

Achieving high selectivity of Li+ and Mg2+ is of paramount importance for effective lithium
extraction from brines, and nanofiltration (NF) membrane plays a critical role in this process …

Membranes offer a scalable and cost-effective approach to ion separations for lithium
recovery. In the case of salt-lake brines, however, the high feed salinity and low pH of the …

Fabricating nanofiltration membranes with high water permeance and selectivity is crucial to
efficient water purification. However, achieving such a goal with a simple and cost-effective …

Pressure-driven membrane desalination (PMD), such as reverse osmosis or nanofiltration, is
an energy-efficient technology that addresses water shortages by using saline waters to …

Due to their numerous effects on human health and the natural environment, water
contamination with heavy metals and metalloids, caused by their extensive use in various …

In recent decades, nanofiltration (NF) is considered as a promising separation technique to
produce drinking water from different types of water source. In this paper, we …

Steric and charge exclusions are mainly responsible for the separation selectivity of
nanofiltration (NF) membranes, thereinto membrane charge spatial distribution plays an …