Evaporation, pervaporation, and forward osmosis are processes leading to a mass transfer
of solvent across an interface: gas/liquid for evaporation and solid/liquid (membrane) for …

Devices that directly capture and store solar energy have the potential to significantly
increase the share of energy from intermittent renewable sources. Photo-electrochemical …

Even though numerous methods have been developed for the detection and quantification
of waterborne pathogens, the application of these methods is often hindered by the very low …

Detection and quantification of pathogens in water is critical for the protection of human
health and for drinking water safety and security. When the pathogen concentrations are …

Elastocapillarity is a spontaneous phenomenon wherein a solid structure is deformed by
capillary forces generated by liquid evaporation between solid structures. In general …

Preconcentration is the aspect of analytical method development covering the need to
improve detection sensitivity. This review collects the advances in a diversity of approaches …

Paper-based evaporation concentrators with linear and radial geometries are compared. A
new method of finding approximate analytic solutions of the advection–dispersion equation …

Hypothesis Spreading of wetting liquids on rough surfaces can occur in a regime termed
hemiwicking in which liquid advances ahead of the bulk liquid droplet front under the …

Self-assembled particle membranes (SAPMs), formed by a self-assembly phenomenon of
nanoparticles, lend themselves to the facile transport of various ions and molecules …

The combination of membranes and microfluidic systems has been applied in areas such as
bioscience, environmental and analytical chemistry, and in the past time research into the …