Recent progress in green thin film membrane based materials for desalination: Design, properties and applications

S Raza, A Hayat, T Bashir, E Ghasali, AAA Hafez… - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
The urgent need for sustainable solutions to address freshwater scarcity has encouraged
significant research interest in green thin film membrane-based materials (GTFM) for …

Advanced membrane-based high-value metal recovery from wastewater

G Gebreslassie, HG Desta, Y Dong, X Zheng, M Zhao… - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Considering the circular economy and environmental protection, sustainable recovery of
high-value metals from wastewater has become a prominent concern. Unlike conventional …

Advancements in membrane modifications for enhanced microalgae harvesting: A comprehensive review

Z Hashmi, IM Idriss, J Zaini, MSA Bakar… - Separation and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The commercialization of microalgae-based products could be significantly advanced by
integrating membrane-based technology into the cultivation and harvesting of microalgae …

Chitin-augmented wetting resistance and water-in-oil emulsion separation performance of silane-modified polyketone membrane

MP Aulia, RR Gonzales, M Tabuchi, T Kitagawa… - Journal of Membrane …, 2024 - Elsevier
The utilization of membrane technology for separating water-in-oil (W/O) emulsions
necessitates a membrane possessing high hydrophobic properties. However, the use of …

Fluorinated Membranes for Liquid Separation: A Review

C Sang, S Yao, Z Si, S Pang, Y Zhuang… - Industrial & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Compared with other traditional separation technologies, membrane separation
technologies have become a forefront solution to looming energy and environmental issues …

Robust halloysite nanotubes modified PVDF membranes with improved wetting resistance for hypersaline wastewater treatment via membrane distillation

S Wu, S Zhao, Z Zhai, Y Huang, S Liu, H Yang… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is a viable technology and potential candidate for desalination of
hypersaline wastewater. Nevertheless, MD membranes with high flux and superior …

Effect of hydrophobized PET TeMs membrane pore-size on saline water treatment by direct contact membrane distillation

AB Yeszhanov, IV Korolkov, O Güven, GB Melnikova… - RSC …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper describes the desalination process by membrane distillation (MD) using track-
etched membranes (TeMs). Hydrophobic track-etched membranes based on poly (ethylene …

Recovery of copper sulfate from acidic mine waters by membrane crystallization

J Gómez, H Giraldo, G Piaggio, L Barros… - Journal of Membrane …, 2024 - Elsevier
The recovery of valuable resources from acid mine waters has attracted high interest in
moving forward to a circular economy approach. In this work, acidic solutions were …

Free radical graft polymerization of hydroxyethyl methacrylate and acrylic acid on polyetherimide membrane surface via redox system to improve anti-fouling and oil …

J Wang, L Nie, C Zhang, B Wang - Materials Today Communications, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, a new scheme of graft polymerization of acrylic acid (AA) and hydroxyethyl
methacrylate (HEMA) initiated by the generation of free radicals in a redox system was used …

High-efficiency water transport and boron removal in polyamide membranes enabled by surface-grafted self-assembled monolayer molecular brushes

J He, J Wu, Y Yang, H Zhang, J He, X Tian… - Journal of Membrane …, 2025 - Elsevier
Using molecular dynamics simulations and density functional theory, we explored a novel
approach involving surface-grafted self-assembled monolayer (SAM) molecular brushes …