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

The generation of polymer brushes by surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization (SI-
CRP) techniques has become a powerful approach to tailor the chemical and physical …

Several studies, which have been carried out on water and wastewater treatment with spinel
ferrite nanoparticles (SFNPs) and spinel ferrite nanocomposites (SFNCs) confirmed their …

Membrane technology has been broadly utilized in water purification including wastewater
treatment, seawater or brackish water desalination. However, it often suffers from the severe …

Reverse osmosis (RO) is an efficient water purification technique because of its high
selectivity and permeability. During RO operation, rejection of solutes at the membrane …

Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) possesses a broad range of applications, including
membrane separation used for water and wastewater treatment. However, the natural …

The present era is represented by the use of smart and intelligent materials in almost all
spheres of life. The field of water treatment is not an exception to this. This extremely …

The precise design of polymers with well-defined end functionality has received great
interest for synthesizing polymeric materials with advanced or distinctive properties. In the …

This study reports on the enhancement of direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD)
performance by incorporating magnetite nanoparticles (NP) in polyvinylidene fluoride …

A novel micromixer named reversed ridges and grooves micromixer (RRGM) with chaotic
and passive characteristics is devised and analyzed numerically. Compared with a slanted …