Pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) was investigated as a viable source of renewable energy.
In PRO, water from a low salinity feed solution permeates through a membrane into a …

Previous investigations of forward osmosis and pressure retarded osmosis identified
asymmetric membrane support layer hydrophilicity as critical to obtain high water flux. In this …

High-performance thin film composite (TFC) forward osmosis (FO) membranes with a low
degree of internal concentration polarization (ICP) are critical for concentrating high-salinity …

Previous investigations of engineered osmosis (EO) concluded that hydrophobic support
layers of thin film composite membrane causes severe internal concentration polarization …

Novel fabrication perspectives have been demonstrated to molecularly construct robust
hollow fiber membrane supports for high performance thin‐film composite (TFC) pressure …

When two streams of different salinities are mixed, Gibbs free energy of mixing is released.
This energy can be harvested and further converted to electric energy through pressure …

This study introduces a thin-film composite (TFC) membrane with a dual-layered
nanocomposite substrate synthesized using a dual-blade casting approach for application in …

An excessive amount of renewable energy could be possibly produced when solutions of
dissimilar salinities are combined simultaneously in a semipermeable membrane. The …

Pressure retarded osmosis has the potential to utilize the free energy of mixing when fresh
river water flows into the sea for clean and renewable power generation. Here, we present a …

Since the early 2000s, pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) has been continuously
investigated, based on its potential to harvest energy from a salinity gradient. However …