Water scarcity is one of the greatest societal challenges facing humanity. Reverse osmosis (RO) desalination, a widely used membrane-based technology, has proven to be effective to …
Mass transport at the sub-nanometre scale, including selective transport of gases, liquids and ions, plays a key role in systems such as catalysis, energy generation and storage …
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 …
Nanofluidics has firmly established itself as a new field in fluid mechanics, as novel properties have been shown to emerge in fluids at the nanometric scale. Thanks to recent …
IC Gerber, P Serp - Chemical Reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
The support plays an important role for supported metal catalysts by positioning itself as a macromolecular ligand, which conditions the nature of the active site and contributes …
The utilization of seawater for drinking purposes is limited by the high specific energy consumption (SEC)(kW-h/m 3) of present desalination technologies; both thermal and …
The flow of water in carbon nanochannels has defied understanding thus far, with accumulating experimental evidence for ultra-low friction, exceptionally high water flow rates …
J Qian, X Gao, B Pan - Environmental Science & Technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
Safe and clean water is of pivotal importance to all living species and the ecosystem on earth. However, the accelerating economy and industrialization of mankind generate water …
Not all nanopores are created equal. By definition, nanopores have characteristic diameters or conduit widths between∼ 1 and 100 nm. However, the narrowest of such pores, perhaps …