Recent advances in polymer membranes employing non-toxic solvents and materials

D Zou, SP Nunes, IFJ Vankelecom, A Figoli… - Green Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymer membranes have attracted interest in many areas, such as desalination, water
treatment, gas separation, and energy storage and generation. Membrane fabrication …

[HTML][HTML] Green and sustainable membranes: a review

N Rabiee, R Sharma, S Foorginezhad… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Membranes are ubiquitous tools for modern water treatment technology that critically
eliminate hazardous materials such as organic, inorganic, heavy metals, and biomedical …

Toward the next generation of sustainable membranes from green chemistry principles

W Xie, T Li, A Tiraferri, E Drioli, A Figoli… - ACS Sustainable …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Large-scale membrane technology has been widely implemented and rapidly growing for
roughly 40 years. However, considering its entire life cycle, there are aspects being …

A novel green solvent alternative for polymeric membrane preparation via nonsolvent-induced phase separation (NIPS)

HH Wang, JT Jung, JF Kim, S Kim, E Drioli… - Journal of membrane …, 2019 - Elsevier
The membrane market has grown rapidly over the past several decades, supported by
continuous improvements in membrane performance, module and process design, and …

Progress on polymeric hollow fiber membrane preparation technique from the perspective of green and sustainable development

Y Huang, C Xiao, Q Huang, H Liu, J Zhao - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
Membrane separation using hollow fiber membrane has become one of the emerging
technologies which underwent rapid development for various applications during the past …

Progress in the modification of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) membranes: A performance review for wastewater treatment

T Ahmad, C Guria - Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Various industries generate a considerable volume of wastewater containing toxic
contaminants, arsenic, dyes, heavy metals, perchlorate, oil from multiple sectors. Among …

Membrane formation by thermally induced phase separation: Materials, involved parameters, modeling, current efforts and future directions

W Ma, Z Zhou, N Ismail, E Tocci, A Figoli… - Journal of Membrane …, 2023 - Elsevier
Thermally-induced phase separation (TIPS) is one of the most popular methods considered
for membrane preparation. Since its introduction by Castro in 1981, there has been …

Advanced porous polymer membranes from self-assembling block copolymers

M Radjabian, V Abetz - Progress in Polymer Science, 2020 - Elsevier
The development of novel polymer membranes is a fascinating and challenging field in
materials science and technology, as both the chemical composition and the processing …

Critical review on membrane designs for enhanced flux performance in membrane distillation

ZS Tai, MHD Othman, KN Koo, J Jaafar - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is a hybrid of thermal and membrane processes that utilizes a
hydrophobic membrane to separate volatile solutes from feed solution at fairly high …

New frontiers in sustainable membrane preparation: Cyrene™ as green bioderived solvent

T Marino, F Galiano, A Molino, A Figoli - Journal of Membrane Science, 2019 - Elsevier
In this work, Cyrene™ was employed for the first time as solvent for polyethersulfone (PES)
and poly (vinylidene fluoride)(PVDF) membrane preparation via phase inversion. The two …