A critical review on porous substrates of TFC polyamide membranes: Mechanisms, membrane performances, and future perspectives

LE Peng, Z Yang, L Long, S Zhou, H Guo… - Journal of Membrane …, 2022 - Elsevier
Reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membranes commonly adopt a thin film composite
(TFC) structure featuring a polyamide rejection layer formed on a porous substrate. Recent …

Recent advances in polymeric transdermal drug delivery systems

F Sabbagh, BS Kim - Journal of controlled release, 2022 - Elsevier
Transdermal delivery has proven to be one of the most favorable methods among novel
drug delivery systems. Since drugs administered by transdermal delivery systems avoid the …

A critical review on thin-film nanocomposite membranes with interlayered structure: mechanisms, recent developments, and environmental applications

Z Yang, PF Sun, X Li, B Gan, L Wang… - … science & technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
The separation properties of polyamide reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membranes,
widely applied for desalination and water reuse, are constrained by the permeability …

The upper bound of thin-film composite (TFC) polyamide membranes for desalination

Z Yang, H Guo, CY Tang - Journal of Membrane Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Membrane separation properties are constrained by a tradeoff relationship between
permeability and selectivity. This tradeoff relationship has been well established for gas …

Manipulating interfacial polymerization for polymeric nanofilms of composite separation membranes

Z Wang, S Liang, Y Kang, W Zhao, Y Xia, J Yang… - Progress in Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Composite separation membranes are essential in the fields of water treatment, mass
concentration, purification, solvent exchange, gas separation, energy storage and …

Nanoparticle-templated nanofiltration membranes for ultrahigh performance desalination

Z Wang, Z Wang, S Lin, H Jin, S Gao, Y Zhu… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Nanofiltration (NF) membranes with ultrahigh permeance and high rejection are highly
beneficial for efficient desalination and wastewater treatment. Improving water permeance …

Recent advances in high-performance TFC membranes: A review of the functional interlayers

C Ji, Z Zhai, C Jiang, P Hu, S Zhao, S Xue, Z Yang… - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
The development of interfacial polymerization (IP) technique has revolutionarily changed
our methods for water treatment and desalination. Over decades, researchers have devoted …

Carbon nanotube interlayer enhances water permeance and antifouling performance of nanofiltration membranes: mechanisms and experimental evidence

L Long, C Wu, Z Yang, CY Tang - Environmental Science & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Interlayered thin-film nanocomposite (TFNi) membranes have been shown to achieve
enhanced water permeance as a result of the gutter effect. Nevertheless, some studies …

Constructing interlayer to tailor structure and performance of thin-film composite polyamide membranes: A review

R Dai, J Li, Z Wang - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Thin-film composite (TFC) structured membranes based on polyamide (PA) chemistry is the
gold standard of nanofiltration and reverse osmosis-based technologies for water …

Covalent organic framework membranes through a mixed-dimensional assembly for molecular separations

H Yang, L Yang, H Wang, Z Xu, Y Zhao, Y Luo… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) hold great promise in molecular separations owing to
their robust, ordered and tunable porous network structures. Currently, the pore size of COFs …