Trade-off in membrane distillation with monolithic omniphobic membranes

Wei Wang; Xuewei Du; Hamed Vahabi; Song Zhao; Yiming Yin; Arun K. Kota; Tiezheng Tong

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11209-6

Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Trade-off in membrane distillation with monolithic omniphobic membranes

Wei Wang,
Xuewei Du,
Hamed Vahabi,
Song Zhao,
Yiming Yin,
Arun K. Kota,
Tiezheng Tong

Affiliations

Wei Wang: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University
Xuewei Du: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
Hamed Vahabi: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University
Song Zhao: School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Membrane Science and Desalination Technology, Tianjin University
Yiming Yin: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
Arun K. Kota: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University
Tiezheng Tong: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11209-6
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Omniphobic membranes are attractive for membrane distillation because of their superior wetting resistance. Here the authors develop a particle-free approach for rapid fabrication of monolithic omniphobic membranes and elucidate the underlying mechanism of wetting resistance-vapor permeability trade-off in membrane distillation desalination.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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