Synthetic membranes featuring confined nanostructures have emerged as a prominent
category of leading materials that can selectively separate target ions from complex water …

Nanopores in thin membranes play important roles in science and industry. Single
nanopores have provided a step-change in portable DNA sequencing and understanding …

Nanofiltration (NF) is a promising and sustainable process to extract Li+ from brine lakes
with high Mg2+/Li+ mass ratios. However, a trade-off between Li/Mg selectivity and Li …

Evaporative technology for lithium mining from salt-lakes exacerbates freshwater scarcity
and wetland destruction, and suffers from protracted production cycles. Electrodialysis (ED) …

Thin film composite polyamide (TFC) nanofiltration (NF) membranes represent extensive
applications at the water-energy-environment nexus, which motivates unremitting efforts to …

Membrane technologies using reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF) have been
widely implemented in water purification and desalination processes. Separation between …

Wastewater is an underleveraged resource; it contains pollutants that can be transformed
into valuable high-purity products. Innovations in chemistry and chemical engineering will …

Membrane filtration has been widely adopted in various water treatment applications, but its
use in selective solute separation for resource extraction and recovery is an emerging …

Lithium (Li) extraction from brines is a major barrier to the sustainable development of
batteries and alloys; however, current separation technology suffers from a trade‐off …

Nanofiltration (NF) plays an increasingly central role in water/salts separation, which puts
forward tailored requirements on NF membranes in a variety of application scenarios …