This review summarizes efforts in developing sulfonated hydrocarbon proton exchange
membranes (PEMs) with excellent long-term electrochemical fuel cell performance in …

A membrane with ordered 3D ionic nanochannels constructed by in situ
photopolymerization of a thermotropic liquid-crystalline monomer shows high filtration …

A theoretical framework is proposed to model the observed water/salt permeability,
diffusivity, and sorption selectivity tradeoff relationships with water permeability, diffusion …

Sulfonated materials have been applied in a wide range of membrane applications due to
their high electrical conductivity, good chemical stability, hydrophilicity and low fouling …

A series of triptycene-containing sulfonated polysulfone (TRP-BP) materials was prepared
via condensation polymerization, and the desalination membrane-relevant fundamental …

Zwitterions of charge-balanced units have super-low fouling properties induced by ionic
solvation, but their extensive applications in polymeric substrates are strictly constrained by …

In this paper, composite reverse osmosis (RO) membranes made from sulfonated poly
(arylene ether sulfone) containing amino groups (aPES) and hyper-branched aromatic …

This review describes main strategies for the development of sulfonated aromatic polymers
(SAP) with optimal properties for medium temperature (90–120 ºC) polymer electrolyte …

A series of thin-film composite nanofiltration membranes have been fabricated by coating
the poly (vinyl alcohol) and 3-mercaptopropyltriethoxysilane aqueous solution prepared by a …

Polybenzimidazole (PBI) was modified by marrying N-substitution with chlorination in order
to improve its desalination properties. Based on the solution-diffusion theory, the effect of N …