A critical review on porous substrates of TFC polyamide membranes: Mechanisms, membrane performances, and future perspectives

LE Peng, Z Yang, L Long, S Zhou, H Guo… - Journal of Membrane …, 2022 - Elsevier
Reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membranes commonly adopt a thin film composite
(TFC) structure featuring a polyamide rejection layer formed on a porous substrate. Recent …

A critical review on thin-film nanocomposite membranes with interlayered structure: mechanisms, recent developments, and environmental applications

Z Yang, PF Sun, X Li, B Gan, L Wang… - … science & technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
The separation properties of polyamide reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membranes,
widely applied for desalination and water reuse, are constrained by the permeability …

The upper bound of thin-film composite (TFC) polyamide membranes for desalination

Z Yang, H Guo, CY Tang - Journal of Membrane Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Membrane separation properties are constrained by a tradeoff relationship between
permeability and selectivity. This tradeoff relationship has been well established for gas …

Manipulating interfacial polymerization for polymeric nanofilms of composite separation membranes

Z Wang, S Liang, Y Kang, W Zhao, Y **a, J Yang… - Progress in Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Composite separation membranes are essential in the fields of water treatment, mass
concentration, purification, solvent exchange, gas separation, energy storage and …

Carbon nanotube interlayer enhances water permeance and antifouling performance of nanofiltration membranes: mechanisms and experimental evidence

L Long, C Wu, Z Yang, CY Tang - Environmental Science & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Interlayered thin-film nanocomposite (TFNi) membranes have been shown to achieve
enhanced water permeance as a result of the gutter effect. Nevertheless, some studies …

Potable water reuse through advanced membrane technology

CY Tang, Z Yang, H Guo, JJ Wen, LD Nghiem… - 2018 - ACS Publications
Recycling water from municipal wastewater offers a reliable and sustainable solution to
cities and regions facing shortage of water supply. Places including California and …

Constructing interlayer to tailor structure and performance of thin-film composite polyamide membranes: A review

R Dai, J Li, Z Wang - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Thin-film composite (TFC) structured membranes based on polyamide (PA) chemistry is the
gold standard of nanofiltration and reverse osmosis-based technologies for water …

Tannic Acid/Fe3+ Nanoscaffold for Interfacial Polymerization: Toward Enhanced Nanofiltration Performance

Z Yang, Z Zhou, H Guo, Z Yao, X Ma… - … science & technology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conventional thin-film composite (TFC) membranes suffer from the trade-off relationship
between permeability and selectivity, known as the “upper bound”. In this work, we report a …

Ultrathin polyamide nanofiltration membrane fabricated on brush-painted single-walled carbon nanotube network support for ion sieving

S Gao, Y Zhu, Y Gong, Z Wang, W Fang, J ** - ACS nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
Recently, ultrathin polyamide nanofiltration membranes fabricated on nanomaterial-based
supports have overcome the limitations of conventional supports and show greatly improved …

Mechanistic insights into the role of polydopamine interlayer toward improved separation performance of polyamide nanofiltration membranes

Z Yang, F Wang, H Guo, LE Peng, X Ma… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Interlayered thin-film nanocomposite membranes (TFNi) are an emerging type of
membranes with great potential to overcome the permeability–selectivity upper bound of …