Membrane-based water treatment processes have been established as a powerful
approach for clean water production. However, despite the significant advances made in …

Membranes offer a scalable and cost-effective approach to ion separations for lithium
recovery. In the case of salt-lake brines, however, the high feed salinity and low pH of the …

Membranes facilitate scalable and continuous lithium concentration from hypersaline salt
lakes and battery leachates. Conventional nanofiltration (NF) membranes, however, exhibit …

Membrane fouling in desalination and wastewater treatment increases operating costs and
energy consumption. Accordingly, research efforts have focused on developing new …

The massive development of electric vehicles and consumer electronic industries has
recently escalated the demand for lithium supply and price worldwide. Since lithium is the …

Spiral-wound reverse osmosis membrane elements have been widely applied in household
water purification which usually demand a high water recovery rate. Membrane scaling …

Graphene-based materials can be potentially utilized for separation membranes due to their
unique structural properties such as precise molecular sieving by interlayer spacing or pore …

Membrane-on-chip is of growing interest in a wide variety of high-throughput environmental
and water research. Advances in membrane technology continuously provide novel …

Osmotically-assisted membrane processes (OAMP) are separation technologies that
leverage osmotic gradients to recover water from brine. Accurate modeling of the solute …

The filtration membranes utilized in advanced treatment of municipal wastewater are prone
to biological fouling. Permeability loss and water recovery limitations due to fouling …