Carbon nanotube membranes in water treatment applications

M Barrejón, M Prato - Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon nanotube (CNT)‐based membranes combine the promising properties of CNTs with
the advantages of membrane separation technologies, offering enhanced membrane …

Carbon nanotube-wastewater treatment nexus: Where are we heading to?

Y Mishra, V Mishra, A Chattaraj, AAA Aljabali… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Water treatment is crucial in solving the rising people's appetite for water and global water
shortages. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have considerable promise for water treatment …

Electrically conductive carbon nanotube/graphene composite membrane for self-cleaning of biofouling via bubble generation

JH Lee, ET Yun, SY Ham, HS Kim, PF Sun, HD Park - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Biofouling is a major operational problem in membrane-based filtration processes, owing to
the formation of intractable biofilms. Recently, electrically conductive membranes have …

Thermally responsive ionic transport system reinforced by aligned functional carbon nanotubes backbone

L Yu, M Wang, X Li, X Hou - Chinese Chemical Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Ion transport plays an important role in energy conversion, biosensors, and a variety of
biological processes. Carbon nanotubes, especially for the carbon nanotubes arrays with …

Nonpolar cross-stacked super-aligned carbon nanotube membrane for efficient wastewater treatment

S Zhang, S Liang, Y Gao, Y Wu, X Huang - Frontiers of Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Membrane separation technology has made great progress in various practical applications,
but the unsatisfactory separation performance of prevailing membrane materials hampers its …

Activate the filtration capability of 3.5 nm ultra-large pores and eliminate the requirement of pore homogeneity for carbon nanotube array membranes

N Li, Z Feng, Y He, Z Peng, X Meng, H Lin, K Xu - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
Vertical array carbon nanotube (VACNT) membrane is considered as one of the most
promising materials for seawater desalination due to its excellent porosity, strong …

Functionalized halloysite nanotubes incorporated thin film nanocomposite nanofiltration membrane for treatment of wastewaters containing metal ions

Z Fallahnejad, G Bakeri, AF Ismail - Process Safety and Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The high concentrations of heavy metal ions in industrial effluents are one of the most
challenging wastewaters to deal with. In this study and in order to change the inner diameter …

Micro-and macrostructures of aligned boron nitride nanotube arrays

LH Acauan, H Wang, Y Zheng, M Liu, S Maruyama… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) possess a broad range of applications because of several
engineering-relevant properties, including high specific strength and stiffness, thermal …

Growth of carbon nanotubes inside porous anodic alumina membranes: Simulation and experiment

II Ryzhkov, IA Kharchenko, EV Mikhlina… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Porous anodic alumina (PAA) membranes represent a widely used and extensively studied
template for production of carbon nanotubes (CNT). The PAA–CNT membranes possess a …

Next-Generation Desalination Membranes Empowered by Novel Materials: Where Are We Now?

S Wu, LE Peng, Z Yang, P Sarkar, M Barboiu… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2025 - Springer
Membrane desalination is an economical and energy-efficient method to meet the current
worldwide water scarcity. However, state-of-the-art reverse osmosis membranes are …