The development of facile, benign and energy-efficient water treatment technologies to
produce clean water presents a major societal challenge. Membrane-based separation …

The state-of-the-art of membrane technology is characterized by a number of mature
applications such as sterile filtration, hemodialysis, water purification and gas separation, as …

Smart membranes with responsive wettability show promise for controllably separating
oil/water mixtures, including immiscible oil-water mixtures and surfactant-stabilized oil/water …

Membranes have been extensively studied and applied in various fields owing to their high
energy efficiency and small environmental impact. Further conferring membranes with …

Porous Janus materials have attracted widespread attention due to their asymmetry in
wettability, charge, pore size or structure, thermal/electrical conductivity, and chemical …

Biomimetic modified membranes for oil/water separations have attracted extensive attention
in recent years. However, complex processing, low efficiency and severe oil fouling have …

Antibacterial coatings that eliminate initial bacterial attachment and prevent subsequent
biofilm formation are essential in a number of applications, especially implanted medical …

New strategies with high antimicrobial efficacy against multidrug-resistant bacteria are
urgently desired. Herein, we describe a smart triple-functional nanostructure, namely …

Bioinspired smart asymmetric nanochannel membranes (BSANM) have been explored
extensively to achieve the delicate ionic transport functions comparable to those of living …

Small molecules and ions pass through molecular separation membranes with channels at
the nanometer scale. These nanochannel membranes are playing an increasingly important …