Membrane technology has emerged as an attractive approach for water purification, while
mitigation of fouling is key to lower membrane operating costs. This article reviews various …

Because of resistance to bio-macromolecular adhesion, antifouling hydrogels have attracted
great attention in biomedical field. But traditional antifouling hydrogels made by hydrophilic …

Conventional membranes face challenges such as uncontrollable pore sizes and fouling,
which reduce their efficiency. Thermoresponsive hydrogel polymers have garnered …

Stimuli-responsive membranes have been widely explored to mitigate fouling on the
membrane surface to achieve the stable performance of water purification. Herein, a facile …

Ions transport properties in hydrated polymers is usually correlated with the amount of water
assuming that all water contributes equally. Herein, we demonstrate that water in polymers …

Support-free nonporous membranes have emerged as a new material platform for osmotic
pressure-driven processes due to its insusceptibility to internal concentration polarization …

Conventional approaches to mitigate fouling of membrane surfaces impart hydrophilicity to
the membrane surface, which increases the water of hydration and fluidity near the surface …

Understanding multi-component transport through polymer membranes is critical for
separation applications such as water purification, energy devices, etc. Specifically for CO2 …

Polymeric membranes for water purification are faced with fouling by the aggregation of
contaminants on the surface, decreasing water permeance. Herein, we demonstrate facile …

Polymeric membranes have been widely used for water purification, and the key challenge
is fouling by contaminants in the water. Conventional approaches to mitigate the fouling is to …