The utilization of osmosis for engineered applications sparked off various emerging
technologies relying on osmotically driven membrane processes (ODMPs). Represented by …

Forward osmosis (FO) has been extensively investigated in the past decade. Despite
significant advancements in our understanding of the FO process, questions and challenges …

As a promising pathway for sustainable desalination and wastewater treatment, thermally-
localized solar evaporation has been successfully demonstrated, mainly with water or NaCl …

Growing requirements of freshwater and unsustainable nature of fossil fuels are driving the
interest in using renewable energy for desalination applications. Due to their less energy …

Membrane fouling, which arises from the nonspecific interaction between the membrane
surface and foulants, significantly impedes the efficient application of membrane technology …

Semipermeable membranes are the core elements for membrane water desalination
technologies such as commercial reverse osmosis (RO) process and emerging forward …

Forward osmosis (FO) is an osmotically driven process widely studied for water desalination,
wastewater treatment, and water reuse, as well as dilution and concentration of aqueous …

Interfacial materials with special wettability have become a burgeoning research area in
materials science in the past decade. The unique surface properties of materials and …

This review focuses on the present status of forward osmosis (FO) niches in two main areas:
seawater desalination and wastewater reuse. Specific applications for desalination and …

In this study, we demonstrate a highly antifouling thin-film composite (TFC) membrane by
grafting a zwitterionic polymer brush via atom-transfer radical-polymerization (ATRP), a …