Reverse osmosis desalination: A state-of-the-art review

M Qasim, M Badrelzaman, NN Darwish, NA Darwish… - Desalination, 2019 - Elsevier
Water scarcity is a grand challenge that has always stimulated research interests in finding
effective means for pure water production. In this context, reverse osmosis (RO) is …

Insights on the development of enhanced antifouling reverse osmosis membranes: Industrial applications and challenges

M Tawalbeh, L Qalyoubi, A Al-Othman, M Qasim… - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
Reverse osmosis (RO) membranes are widely employed due to their inherent advantage of
achieving excellent water permeation rates and high salt rejection. However, fouling is a …

Ultrafast water permeation through nanochannels with a densely fluorous interior surface

Y Itoh, S Chen, R Hirahara, T Konda, T Aoki, T Ueda… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Ultrafast water permeation in aquaporins is promoted by their hydrophobic interior surface.
Polytetrafluoroethylene has a dense fluorine surface, leading to its strong water repellence …

Engineering antifouling reverse osmosis membranes: A review

S Zhao, Z Liao, A Fane, J Li, C Tang, C Zheng, J Lin… - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, water scarcity and security have significantly stimulated the
advances of reverse osmosis (RO) technology, which dominates the global desalination …

A review on reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membranes for water purification

Z Yang, Y Zhou, Z Feng, X Rui, T Zhang, Z Zhang - Polymers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Sustainable and affordable supply of clean, safe, and adequate water is one of the most
challenging issues facing the world. Membrane separation technology is one of the most …

High performance polyester reverse osmosis desalination membrane with chlorine resistance

Y Yao, P Zhang, C Jiang, RM DuChanois… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Chlorination is a common practice to prevent biofouling in municipal water supplies,
wastewater reuse and seawater desalination. However, polyamide thin-film composite …

Selectivity of ion exchange membranes: A review

T Luo, S Abdu, M Wessling - Journal of membrane science, 2018 - Elsevier
Ion exchange membranes (IEMs) have been established as a key component in industrial
water desalination and electrolysis processes. Thus, nowadays, they are being studied and …

Maximizing the right stuff: The trade-off between membrane permeability and selectivity

HB Park, J Kamcev, LM Robeson, M Elimelech… - Science, 2017 - science.org
BACKGROUND Synthetic membranes are used for desalination, dialysis, sterile filtration,
food processing, dehydration of air and other industrial, medical, and environmental …

Ultrahigh-flux and fouling-resistant membranes based on layered silver/MXene (Ti 3 C 2 T x) nanosheets

RP Pandey, K Rasool, VE Madhavan, B Aïssa… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Low flux and fouling are critical issues in membrane based separation processes. Here we
report a two-dimensional (2D) MXene (Ti3C2Tx) modified with Ag nanoparticles (Ag …

Surface modification of water purification membranes

DJ Miller, DR Dreyer, CW Bielawski… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Polymeric membranes are an energy‐efficient means of purifying water, but they suffer from
fouling during filtration. Modification of the membrane surface is one route to mitigating …