Progress on fiber engineering for fabric innovation in ecological hydrophobic design and multifunctional applications

W Li, L Yang, J Huang, C Zheng, Y Chen, Y Li… - Industrial Chemistry & …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The application of fluorinated coatings on textiles has garnered substantial research interest
over the past years, owing to their ability to endow fabrics with exceptional hydrophobic …

Fabrication of a facile self-floating lignin-based carbon Janus evaporators for efficient and stable solar desalination

W Li, T Li, B Deng, T Xu, G Wang, W Hu… - Advanced Composites and …, 2024 - Springer
Desalination with solar-driven photothermal evaporator is extremely attractive for tackling
the current freshwater shortage of humanity, and a scalable and efficient interfacial solar …

Fluid Unidirectional Transport Induced by Structure and Ambient Elements across Porous Materials: From Principles to Applications

K Huang, Y Si, J Hu - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Spontaneous or non‐spontaneous unidirectional fluid transport across multi‐dimension can
occur under specific structural designs and ambient elements for porous materials. While …

Surface energy-induced anti-wetting and anti-fouling enhancement of Janus membrane for membrane distillation

L Meng, X Chen, T Cai, X Tong, Z Wang - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) presents a promising alternative to conventional desalination
systems, particularly for the treatment of hypersaline wastewater. However, the large-scale …

Surfactant-interlayer assisted interfacial polymerization for constructing Janus nanofiltration membranes: Enhanced Li+/Mg2+ separation efficiency

R Jia, XG Jin, ZL Xu, LK Wu, YH Tong, HX Li… - Journal of Membrane …, 2024 - Elsevier
Nanofiltration (NF) technology shows significant potential for lithium extraction, but the
limited Mg 2+ rejection of conventional negatively charged NF membranes constrains …

Three birds with one stone: Constructing Janus multilayer carbon fabric to boost solar-driven interfacial evaporation, electrical power generation and inhibit VOCs …

K Ding, Y Yang, Y Mao, D Tong, S Lu, B Song - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Solar-driven interfacial evaporation technology has great potential to address both the
freshwater and energy crises in a low-cost, environmentally friendly, and sustainable …

Design of multiple anti-fouling and honeycomb-like NH2-AgBiS2@ g-C3N4 hydrogel layer onto PAN fiber membrane for multicomponent pollutant-oil-water emulsion …

H Jia, Y Zhan, F Zhu, X Chen, X Duan, N Zhang… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2024 - Elsevier
Nano-structured hydrogel with unique anti-oil fouling property exhibits big advantage in
oil/water separation, but its application in complex oily wastewater (contain oils, organic …

Buoyancy-assisted fabrication of liquid diode: Janus nanofibrous membrane for efficient wastewater treatment

FU Ahmed, S Sharma… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The pressing need for effective methods to separate oil and water in oily wastewater has
spurred the development of innovative solutions. This work presents the creation and …

Small functional hydrogels with big engineering applications

Y Liu, Z Guo - Materials Today Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
Hydrogels are crosslinked water-retaining network formed by hydrophilic natural or synthetic
polymers. Traditional hydrogels usually are limited by the swelling performance and poor …

Review of designing anti-surfactant wetting Janus membranes for membrane distillation: Mechanisms, methods and challenges

M Lou, L Meng, J Li, F Li - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
Janus membranes with asymmetric wettable structures have well-pleasing anti-organic
fouling but plague with severe pore wetting induced by surfactants in the membrane …