Nature Communications (May 2018)

Nanoparticle-templated nanofiltration membranes for ultrahigh performance desalination

  • Zhenyi Wang,
  • Zhangxin Wang,
  • Shihong Lin,
  • Huile Jin,
  • Shoujian Gao,
  • Yuzhang Zhu,
  • Jian Jin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04467-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Nanofiltration membranes are important for water desalination technologies, but designing membranes that achieve both high permeance and high salt rejection remains challenging. Here, the authors use sacrificial nanoparticles in the membrane fabrication process, leading to crumpled structures with ultrahigh permeance.