TY - JOUR
T1 - Advancements in Nanoenabled Membrane Distillation for a Sustainable Water-Energy-Environment Nexus
AU - Farid, Muhammad Usman
AU - Kharraz, Jehad A.
AU - Sun, Jiawei
AU - Boey, Min Wei
AU - Riaz, Muhammad Adil
AU - Wong, Pak Wai
AU - Jia, Mingyi
AU - Zhang, Xinning
AU - Deka, Bhaskar Jyoti
AU - Khanzada, Noman Khalid
AU - Guo, Jiaxin
AU - An, Alicia Kyoungjin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Authors. Advanced Materials published by Wiley-VCH GmbH.
PY - 2024/4/25
Y1 - 2024/4/25
N2 - The emergence of nano innovations in membrane distillation (MD) has garnered increasing scientific interest. This enables the exploration of state-of-the-art nano-enabled MD membranes with desirable properties, which significantly improve the efficiency and reliability of the MD process and open up opportunities for achieving a sustainable water-energy-environment (WEE) nexus. This comprehensive review provides broad coverage and in-depth analysis of recent innovations in nano-enabled MD membranes, focusing on their role in achieving desirable properties, such as strong liquid-repellence, high resistance to scaling, fouling, and wetting, as well as efficient self-heating and self-cleaning functionalities. The recent developments in nano-enhanced photothermal-catalytic applications for water-energy co-generation within a single MD system are also discussed. Furthermore, the bottlenecks are identified that impede the scale-up of nanoenhanced MD membranes and a future roadmap is proposed for their sustainable commercialiation. This holistic overview is expected to inspire future research and development efforts to fully harness the potential of nano-enabled MD membranes to achieve sustainable integration of water, energy, and the environment.
AB - The emergence of nano innovations in membrane distillation (MD) has garnered increasing scientific interest. This enables the exploration of state-of-the-art nano-enabled MD membranes with desirable properties, which significantly improve the efficiency and reliability of the MD process and open up opportunities for achieving a sustainable water-energy-environment (WEE) nexus. This comprehensive review provides broad coverage and in-depth analysis of recent innovations in nano-enabled MD membranes, focusing on their role in achieving desirable properties, such as strong liquid-repellence, high resistance to scaling, fouling, and wetting, as well as efficient self-heating and self-cleaning functionalities. The recent developments in nano-enhanced photothermal-catalytic applications for water-energy co-generation within a single MD system are also discussed. Furthermore, the bottlenecks are identified that impede the scale-up of nanoenhanced MD membranes and a future roadmap is proposed for their sustainable commercialiation. This holistic overview is expected to inspire future research and development efforts to fully harness the potential of nano-enabled MD membranes to achieve sustainable integration of water, energy, and the environment.
KW - membrane distillation
KW - nano-enabled membranes
KW - photothermal-catalytic membranes
KW - water-energy-environment nexus
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85178415954
U2 - 10.1002/adma.202307950
DO - 10.1002/adma.202307950
M3 - Review article
C2 - 37772325
AN - SCOPUS:85178415954
SN - 0935-9648
VL - 36
JO - Advanced Materials
JF - Advanced Materials
IS - 17
M1 - 2307950
ER -