Engineering biomedical membranes for guided bone regeneration
June 2026
Guided bone regeneration (GBR) is a widely employed clinical strategy that utilizes biomedical membranes to create a physical barrier between soft tissue and bone defects, thereby facilitating bone...
pH-mediated polyethyleneimine-based thin-film composite membranes for high-performance pervaporation desalination
June 2026
Pervaporation (PV) desalination has emerged as a promising seawater desalination technology, distinguished by its strong hydrophilicity and capacity to efficiently treat highly saline feeds. Advancing...
A novel transferring strategy to construct outstanding ceramic membranes for high-temperature dust-laden gas filtration
June 2026
Various industrial processes such as oil refining, metal refining, and chemical industry generate high-temperature dust-laden flue gas. The traditional flue gas treatment technology including wet spray...
Novel dense Janus membrane with engineered gradient architectures for molecular separation in membrane contactor
Available online 6 May 2026
Membrane contactor based on porous hydrophobic membrane is a promising approach for precise sieving between (semi-)volatile organic compounds (e.g., phenol, C6H5OH) and salt ions (e.g., Na+, Cl-, Ca2+,...
Electrostatically stabilized one-dimensional intercalation enables ultrapermeable and antifouling MXene membranes for dye wastewater purification
Available online 1 May 2026
Two-dimensional MXene membranes are promising for dye wastewater purification. Herein, we propose an electrostatically stabilized one-dimensional intercalation strategy to construct ultrapermeable and...
Enhanced stability of pyridine-containing poly(arylene ether) membranes for vanadium redox flow battery: influence of backbone structure
March 2026
Vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) are emerging as large-scale energy storage devices to solve volatility in the utilization of renewable energy. As key components of VRFBs, membranes still suffer...
Poly(arylpiperidine) anion-exchange membranes utilizing varied side-chain cross-linking for enhanced electrodialytic ion separation in alkaline waste treatment
March 2026
Electrodialysis with anion-exchange membranes (AEMs) is effective for reclaiming alkaline substances from industrial effluents, but conventional AEMs suffer from active group degradation under harsh...
Synergizing peroxymonosulfate-activated advanced oxidation processes with underwater superoleophobicity in composite membranes for enhanced anti-fouling in oily wastewater purification
March 2026
Underwater superoleophobic characteristics of the membranes have been developed to defeat fouling caused by organic solvents and oils with low viscosity and high volatility in oily wastewater treatment....
Emerging trends in fouling mitigation for membrane distillation and pervaporation: Implications for desalination and wastewater treatment
March 2026
Thermally driven membrane separation processes, such as membrane distillation (MD) and pervaporation (PV), are emerging technologies for desalination and water treatment applications. While both processes...
Flux melting of UiO-67 family metal-organic frameworks: the thin film processing and nanofiltration property
March 2026
Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) have been demonstrated to be the perfect candidates of function materials for special specie separation. Although numerous MOFs, nearly 100,000 unique ones, have been...
Osmotic energy harvesting from produced water and boiler blowdown water by sulfonated Poly(ether ether ketone)-based mixed matrix membranes
March 2026
The salinity gradient between produced water and boiler blowdown water – both significant waste streams in the petroleum industry – represents an emerging, clean, and sustainable energy source. This...
Poly (ether block amide) membranes with hyper-crosslinked polymer fillers for enhanced pervaporation of phenol aqueous solutions
March 2026
Pervaporation (PV) is considered one of the most industrially potential phenol wastewater treatment technologies because of its advantages such as high efficiency and without regeneration. PV membrane...
Fluorinated polyamide-based ion-solvating membranes for long-cycle quasi-solid-state lithium batteries
March 2026
Membrane-based solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) have emerged as promising candidates for enhancing the energy density and safety of lithium metal battery (LMBs), owing to their superior Li-salt dissociation...
Enhanced antifouling performance of anion exchange membrane via in-situ constructed interfacial polymerization modified layer within electrodialysis stack
March 2026
Organic fouling of anion exchange membranes (AEMs) severely limits the large-scale application of electrodialysis (ED) in industrial wastewater resource recovery, primarily due to the compromised engineering...
Gas separation performance of soluble PMDA-polyimides controlled by diamine isomerism and copolymerization
March 2026
Two series of soluble polyimides based on pyromellitic dianhydride (PMDA) were synthesized and investigated for gas separation applications. The first series was prepared by reacting PMDA with 5(6)-1-(4-aminophenyl)-1,3,3′-trimethylindane...
Ultra-stable Ni-overdoped yttria-stabilized zirconia oxygen separation membranes for methane partial oxidation
March 2026
Ceramic oxygen separation membranes have advantages over cryogenic distillation and pressure swing adsorption in terms of oxygen production. However, the application of ceramic membranes is restricted...
Intrinsic chiral microporous polymer membranes by interfacial polymerization for precise enantioseparation
March 2026
Enantiomers of chiral drugs frequently exhibit distinct pharmacological activities, metabolic pathways, rates of metabolism, and toxicological profiles. Consequently, the large-scale production of single...
A novel homogeneous amphipathic PTFE/β-FeOOH nanofiber membrane for emulsion separation and photocatalytic degradation in harsh environments
March 2026
The efficient separation of emulsion and the simultaneous degradation of organic pollutants remain critical challenges in wastewater treatment, particularly under harsh environments. In this work, a...
High temperature resistant thin film composite polyamide membrane constructed via 3,3′-diamine-Tröger base COFs for enhancing reverse osmosis separation performances
March 2026
High temperature resistant thin-film composite polyamide (TFC PA) membranes are notable across various applications. However, the pursuit of efficient separation at elevated temperatures was hindered...
Hydrazone-linked covalent organic frameworks for membrane separation
March 2026
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs), which are porous crystalline materials built using reticular and dynamic covalent chemistry, are attracting significant interest in advanced membrane separations....
Preparation of high-performance pervaporation membranes for ethanol dehydration using a layer-by-layer self-assembly method
2025
To achieve fuel-grade purity (≥99.5 wt%), raw bioethanol needs to be purified. Adopting pervaporation membrane for bioethanol enrichment can greatly reduce the energy consumption compared with distillation....
Accurate separation and recovery of humic substances from landfill leachate concentrate by triethanolamine-based loose nanofiltration membranes
2025
The treatment of landfill leachate concentrate poses significant environmental challenges, particularly in the separation and recovery of valuable humic substances from high salt concentrations. In...
Vapor permeation (VP) of water (H2O)/ acetic acid (AcOH) mixtures via bis(triethoxysily)ethane (BTESE) membranes
2025
Bis(triethoxysilyl)ethane (BTESE)-derived organosilica membranes prepared using sol-gel processing, were used in vapor permeation (VP) to dehydrate aqueous acetic acid (AcOH) solutions. It was discovered...