Polyamide desalination membranes: Formation, structure, and properties

V Freger, GZ Ramon - Progress in Polymer Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Empirical discovery, four decades ago, of polyamide membranes made by interfacial
polymerization revolutionized large-scale desalination and has made desalinated water …

Regulating the interfacial polymerization process toward high-performance polyamide thin-film composite reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membranes: A review

X Li, Z Wang, X Han, Y Liu, C Wang, F Yan… - Journal of Membrane …, 2021 - Elsevier
Polyamide (PA) thin-film composite (TFC) reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF)
membranes are the core elements for the membrane-based desalination technologies …

Water transport in reverse osmosis membranes is governed by pore flow, not a solution-diffusion mechanism

L Wang, J He, M Heiranian, H Fan, L Song, Y Li… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
We performed nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) simulations and solvent
permeation experiments to unravel the mechanism of water transport in reverse osmosis …

Ice-confined synthesis of highly ionized 3D-quasilayered polyamide nanofiltration membranes

Y Zhang, H Wang, J Guo, X Cheng, G Han, CH Lau… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Existing polyamide (PA) membrane synthesis protocols are underpinned by controlling
diffusion-dominant liquid-phase reactions that yield subpar spatial architectures and …

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 …

A review on porous polymeric membrane preparation. Part I: production techniques with polysulfone and poly (vinylidene fluoride)

XM Tan, D Rodrigue - Polymers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Porous polymeric membranes have emerged as the core technology in the field of
separation. But some challenges remain for several methods used for membrane …

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 …

Fabrication of positively charged nanofiltration membrane with uniform charge distribution by reversed interfacial polymerization for Mg2+/Li+ separation

Y Li, S Wang, W Wu, H Yu, R Che, G Kang… - Journal of Membrane …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanofiltration is considered a promising technology for separation of multivalent/monovalent
ions such as extracting lithium from Salt Lake brine with high Mg 2+/Li+ ratio. However, the …

A review of polymeric nanocomposite membranes for water purification

M Bassyouni, MH Abdel-Aziz, MS Zoromba… - Journal of Industrial and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Nanocomposites are now commonly employed to augment the standard polymeric
membrane materials that are used in water treatment processes. A number of different …

Bioinspired smart asymmetric nanochannel membranes

Z Zhang, L Wen, L Jiang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Bioinspired smart asymmetric nanochannel membranes (BSANM) have been explored
extensively to achieve the delicate ionic transport functions comparable to those of living …