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Polyamide nanofiltration membrane with highly uniform sub-nanometre pores for sub-1 Å precision separation Open
Separating molecules or ions with sub-Angstrom scale precision is important but technically challenging. Achieving such a precise separation using membranes requires Angstrom scale pores with a high level of pore size uniformity. Herein, w…
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Nanoparticle-templated nanofiltration membranes for ultrahigh performance desalination Open
Nanofiltration (NF) membranes with ultrahigh permeance and high rejection are highly beneficial for efficient desalination and wastewater treatment. Improving water permeance while maintaining the high rejection of state-of-the-art thin fi…
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Bio-based volatile fatty acid production and recovery from waste streams: Current status and future challenges Open
Bio-based volatile fatty acid (VFA) production from waste-stream is getting attention due to increasing market demand and wide range usage area as well as its cost-effective and environmentally friendly approach. The aim of this paper is t…
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A Review on Reverse Osmosis and Nanofiltration Membranes for Water Purification Open
Sustainable and affordable supply of clean, safe, and adequate water is one of the most challenging issues facing the world. Membrane separation technology is one of the most cost-effective and widely applied technologies for water purific…
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Covalent organic framework membranes through a mixed-dimensional assembly for molecular separations Open
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) hold great promise in molecular separations owing to their robust, ordered and tunable porous network structures. Currently, the pore size of COFs is usually much larger than most small molecules. Meanwhi…
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Sharpening Nanofiltration: Strategies for Enhanced Membrane Selectivity Open
Nanofiltration plays an increasingly large role in many industrial applications, such as water treatment (e.g., desalination, water softening, and fluoride removal) and resource recovery (e.g., alkaline earth metals). Energy consumption an…
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Nanofiltration systems and applications in wastewater treatment: Review article Open
Nanofiltration membrane (NF) is one of the most important activities employed in wastewater treatment field. It is a relatively recent development in membrane technology and it can be aqueous or non-aqueous. Characteristics of NF fall betw…
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Dopamine: Just the Right Medicine for Membranes Open
Mussel‐inspired chemistry has attracted widespread interest in membrane science and technology. Demonstrating the rapid growth of this field over the past several years, substantial progress has been achieved in both mussel‐inspired chemis…
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Desalination and Nanofiltration through Functionalized Laminar MoS<sub>2</sub> Membranes Open
Laminar membranes of two-dimensional materials are excellent candidates for applications in water filtration due to the formation of nanocapillaries between individual crystals that can exhibit a molecular and ionic sieving effect, while a…
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Photocatalytic Nanofiltration Membranes with Self‐Cleaning Property for Wastewater Treatment Open
Membrane fouling is one of the most severe problems restricting membrane separation technology for wastewater treatment. This work reports a photocatalytic nanofiltration membrane (NFM) with self‐cleaning property fabricated using a facile…
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Polyamide-based membranes with structural homogeneity for ultrafast molecular sieving Open
Thin-film composite membranes formed by conventional interfacial polymerization generally suffer from the depth heterogeneity of the polyamide layer, i.e., nonuniformly distributed free volume pores, leading to the inefficient permselectiv…
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Nanofiltration membranes and processes: A review of research trends over the past decade Open
Nanofiltration technology has come a long way since first inception in the late 1980s. Research activity in this area covers a great many topics and the aim of this review is to quantify the level interest in each of these areas. The numbe…
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Realizing small-flake graphene oxide membranes for ultrafast size-dependent organic solvent nanofiltration Open
La 3+ cross-linking produces robust membranes from small-flake graphene oxide, which induces fast organic solvent permeances.
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Ice-confined synthesis of highly ionized 3D-quasilayered polyamide nanofiltration membranes Open
Existing polyamide (PA) membrane synthesis protocols are underpinned by controlling diffusion-dominant liquid-phase reactions that yield subpar spatial architectures and ionization behavior. We report an ice-confined interfacial polymeriza…
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Nanofiltration and Tight Ultrafiltration Membranes for the Recovery of Polyphenols from Agro-Food By-Products Open
Pressure-driven membrane-based technologies represent a valid approach to reduce the environmental pollution of several agro-food by-products. Recently, in relation to the major interest for natural compounds with biological activities, th…
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Recent Advances in Nanoporous Membranes for Water Purification Open
Nanoporous materials exhibit wide applications in the fields of electrocatalysis, nanodevice fabrication, energy, and environmental science, as well as analytical science. In this review, we present a summary of recent studies on nanoporou…
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Carbamazepine as a Possible Anthropogenic Marker in Water: Occurrences, Toxicological Effects, Regulations and Removal by Wastewater Treatment Technologies Open
Carbamazepine (CBZ), a pharmaceutical compound, has been proposed as an anthropogenic marker to assess water quality due to its persistence in conventional treatment plants and widespread presence in water bodies. This paper presents a com…
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Recovery of Phenolic Compounds from Red Grape Pomace Extract through Nanofiltration Membranes Open
The winemaking process generates a large amount of residues such as vine shots, stalks, grape pomace, and wine lees, which were only recently considered for exploitation of their valuable compounds. The purpose of this work was to investig…
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Ultrafiltration and nanofiltration membrane fouling by natural organic matter: Mechanisms and mitigation by pre-ozonation and pH Open
The fouling of ultrafiltration (UF) and nanofiltration (NF) membranes during the treatment of surface waters continues to be of concern and the particular role of natural organic matter (NOM) requires further investigation. In this study t…
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Separation mechanism, selectivity enhancement strategies and advanced materials for mono-/multivalent ion-selective nanofiltration membrane Open
Mono-/multivalent ion-selective separation has become a common requirement at the water-energy nexus, including energy storage and conversion, water purification, and sustainable industrial processes. In this review, we summarize the theor…
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Microporous organic nanotube assisted design of high performance nanofiltration membranes Open
Microporous organic nanotubes (MONs) hold considerable promise for designing molecular-sieving membranes because of their high microporosity, customizable chemical functionalities, and favorable polymer affinity. Herein, we report the use …
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Rejection Mechanism of Ionic Solute Removal by Nanofiltration Membranes: An Overview Open
The toxicity of heavy metals can cause water pollution and has harmful effects on human health and the environment. Various methods are used to overcome this pressing issue and each method has its own advantages and disadvantages. Membrane…
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Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs): A Potential Nanomaterial for Water Purification Open
Nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been used as an excellent material for catalysis, separation, adsorption and disinfection processes. CNTs have grabbed the attention of the scientific community and they have the potential…
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Surface water filtration using granular media and membranes: A review Open
Significant growth of the human population is expected in the future. Hence, the pressure on the already scarce natural water resources is continuously increasing. This work is an overview of membrane and filtration methods for the removal…
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A Short Review of Membrane Fouling in Forward Osmosis Processes Open
Interest in forward osmosis (FO) research has rapidly increased in the last decade due to problems of water and energy scarcity. FO processes have been used in many applications, including wastewater reclamation, desalination, energy produ…
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Brine pre-treatment technologies for zero liquid discharge systems Open
10.1016/j.desal.2018.04.006
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Seawater desalination concentrate—a new frontier for sustainable mining of valuable minerals Open
The ocean has often been announced as a sustainable source of important materials for civilization. Application of the same extraction processes to desalination concentrate, rather than to unconcentrated seawater, will necessarily be more …
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Robust Covalently Cross-linked Polybenzimidazole/Graphene Oxide Membranes for High-Flux Organic Solvent Nanofiltration Open
Robust, readily scalable, high-flux graphene oxide (GO) mixed matrix composite membranes were developed for organic solvent nanofiltration. Hydroxylated polybenzimidazole was synthesized by N-benzylation of polybenzimidazole with 4-(chloro…
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Cross-linked mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) consisting of amine-functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes and P84 polyimide for organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN) with enhanced flux Open
10.1016/j.memsci.2017.11.037
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Smart covalent organic networks (CONs) with “on-off-on” light-switchable pores for molecular separation Open
2D membrane with azobenzene switches has the photo-responsive pores for nanofiltration.