Innovative design of smart organic materials is of great importance for the advancement of
modern technology. Macrocycle hosts, possessing cyclic skeletons, intrinsic cavities, and …

Composite separation membranes are essential in the fields of water treatment, mass
concentration, purification, solvent exchange, gas separation, energy storage and …

Current polyamide lithium extraction nanofiltration membranes are susceptible to chlorine
degradation and/or low permeance, two problems that are hard to reconcile. Here we …

Microporous organic nanotubes (MONs) hold considerable promise for designing molecular-
sieving membranes because of their high microporosity, customizable chemical …

The composition of wastewater containing heavy metal mixtures is often complex and poses
a serious threat to human and environmental health. Effective removal of a variety of heavy …

The design of materials and their manufacture into membranes that can handle industrial
conditions and separate complex nonaqueous mixtures are challenging. We report a …

The evolution of the chemical and pharmaceutical industry requires effective and less
energy-intensive separation technologies. Engineering smart materials at a large scale with …

The thin-film composite (TFC) membranes fabricated by interfacial polymerization (IP) can
be applied in the fields of nanofiltration (NF) and reverse osmosis (RO), which has the …

Organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN) is an emerging membrane separation technology,
which urgently requires robust, easily processed, OSN membranes possessing high …

Porous organic polymers (POPs) have received increasing attention due to their properties,
such as permanent porosity with tunable pore size, robust structure, high surface area, and …