Seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) is the key technology driving an energy-efficient and
cost-effective desalination process. At the center of this technology are the thin film …

The separation properties of polyamide reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membranes,
widely applied for desalination and water reuse, are constrained by the permeability …

Desalination can help to alleviate the fresh-water crisis facing the world. Thermally driven
membrane distillation is a promising way to purify water from a variety of saline and polluted …

Over the past decades, water scarcity and security have significantly stimulated the
advances of reverse osmosis (RO) technology, which dominates the global desalination …

Membranes have been extensively studied and applied in various fields owing to their high
energy efficiency and small environmental impact. Further conferring membranes with …

Membrane separation properties are constrained by a tradeoff relationship between
permeability and selectivity. This tradeoff relationship has been well established for gas …

Chlorination is a common practice to prevent biofouling in municipal water supplies,
wastewater reuse and seawater desalination. However, polyamide thin-film composite …

Catalytic membranes can simultaneously realize physical separation and chemical
oxidation in one integrated system, which is the frontier technology for effective removal of …

Advanced treatment of refractory industrial wastewater is still a challenge. Coking
wastewater is one of coal chemical wastewater, which contains various refractory organic …

The thin-film composite (TFC) membranes fabricated by interfacial polymerization (IP) can
be applied in the fields of nanofiltration (NF) and reverse osmosis (RO), which has the …