Energy-efficient desalination and water treatment technologies play a critical role in
augmenting freshwater resources without placing an excessive strain on limited energy …

Janus membranes are an emerging class of materials having opposing properties at an
interface. This structure results in selective and often novel transport characteristics. In this …

Utilizing the" waste heat" of solar cells for desalination enables the simultaneous production
of freshwater and electricity and represents low barrier-of-entry electricity and freshwater …

Membrane Distillation (MD) is a thermally-driven separation process, in which only vapour
molecules transfer through a microporous hydrophobic membrane. The driving force in the …

Desalination technologies using salt-rejecting membranes are a highly efficient tool to
provide fresh water and augment existing water supplies. In recent years, numerous studies …

Fouling and wetting of membranes are significant concerns that can impede the widespread
application of the membrane distillation (MD) process during high-salinity wastewater …

There is an urgent need for the development of new water resources in order to solve the
problem of the world's growing demand for clean water. Membrane distillation (MD) is a …

With an ever-increasing demand in energy, constrained by strict environmental regulations,
process development faces stringent design requirements further limited by intrinsic …

Membrane distillation is a process that utilizes differences in vapor pressure to permeate
water through a macro-porous membrane and reject other non-volatile constituents present …

The membrane distillation (MD) process has been identified as one of the most promising
technologies in seawater desalination and wastewater treatment due to its lack of a salinity …