2026 August - 28 articles
Upgrading biogas to pipeline-quality methane requires the efficient removal of CO2, yet conventional physicochemical routes remain energy-intensive. Coupling a CO2-selective membrane with microalgal photosynthetic fixation offers a green alternative,...
Oily wastewater commonly contains dissolved organic contaminants such as dyes, antibiotics, and phenolic compounds. Conventional stepwise treatment processes involve complex operation, high energy consumption, and severe membrane fouling. Multifuncti...
Liposomal systems are commonly used in drug delivery due to their low toxicity, biocompatibility and biodegradability. In this review, the influence of physicochemical parameters of liposomes, namely size, surface charge, and lipid composition, on bi...
Cellulose acetate (CA) is a promising bio-derived membrane material for water treatment; however, its limited availability of active functional sites can restrict its affinity toward dissolved pollutants. In this study, a cellulose acetate membrane w...
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) provide a membrane-based bioelectrochemical route for simultaneous wastewater treatment and electricity generation. This study investigates the effect of aeration and mixing on the performance of dual-chamber microbial fue...
This study investigates polymer/ionic liquid/polymer trilayer membranes for recovering aroma and fragrance compounds from a simplified synthetic model aqueous solution via pervaporation. The membranes featured organophilic polymer layers (PEBA and PO...
Diffusion against a concentration gradient, also called uphill transport, has been reported for magnesium and sulfate ions in solutions of NaCl and Mg
The emergence of biological membranes was a critical step in the origin of cellular life because compartmentalization enabled molecular concentration, selective interactions, and increasingly complex chemical evolution. While fatty acids are widely c...
Membrane separation has become a key technology for advanced water purification and control of emerging contaminants because of its high separation efficiency, low chemical demand, and ease of integration. However, organic membrane fouling induced by...
Extracting lithium from salt-lake brines boasts distinct advantages including low production cost, low energy consumption and low environmental risks, and will serve as a primary supply source of lithium salts in the future. This trend raises higher...
The lipid and fatty acid composition of the little Baikal oilfish (Comephorus dybowskii Korotneff, 1905) was studied to identify the features of its biochemical adaptation to the environmental conditions of Lake Baikal. Multivariate analysis of lipid...
Rare earth elements (REEs) are critical for advanced manufacturing and clean energy, yet their separation remains extremely challenging due to the nearly identical ionic radii of adjacent lanthanides. Conventional solvent extraction, ion exchange, an...
NAR2 family proteins are involved in the uptake of nitrate by plant roots as partners of high-affinity nitrate transporters of NRT2 family. In this study, we cloned the coding sequence of a gene, which encodes a protein consisting of 196 amino acids...
Hollow fiber loose nanofiltration (HF-LNF) has attracted increasing attention as a pressure-driven membrane platform that combines loose nanofiltration (LNF) selectivity with the high packing density and self-supporting geometry of hollow fibers. Thi...
The lack of freshwater in the world requires a paradigm shift from linear water consumption to resilient and low-energy desalination technologies. Although reverse osmosis (RO) is the standard in the industry, its usefulness is essentially constraine...
Polyamide nanofiltration (NF) membranes offer a scalable and energy-efficient pathway for lithium concentration from lake brines and battery leachates, but practical implementation hinges on achieving high selectivity of Li+ over Mg2+. The active lay...
To overcome the limitations of insufficient driving force in traditional microbial desalination batteries, this paper constructs a microbial anode-membrane capacitive deionization (B-MCDI) coupling system. For the first time, direct coupling between...
Industrial wastewater management has become one of the defining environmental challenges of the twenty-first century [...]
The multifractal properties of ion-channel currents recorded from Beta vulgaris L. vacuoles were analyzed using multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis (MFDFA) and the Wavelet Transform Modulus Maxima (WTMM) method. The study covered a range of m...
Methane aromatization mainly proceeds at 650–750 °C. Simultaneous separation of hydrogen and oxygen can boost conversion efficiency and mitigate catalyst coking, yet most non-electrochemical membrane reactors fail to achieve synchronous hyd...
Concentration polarization is a common phenomenon in membrane separation processes and generally impairs mass transfer efficiency. Electrodialysis (ED) is considered a promising technology for concentrating high-salinity solutions used in air-conditi...
Water scarcity and rising demand for safe water continue to motivate the development of improved treatment and desalination membranes. MBenes are an emerging family of two-dimensional transition-metal borides derived from layered MAB phases. Material...
Reverse osmosis (RO) desalination operators time membrane clean-in-place (CIP) by non-site-calibrated vendor thresholds. We present an auditable workflow that converts these thresholds into plant-calibrated decision support. It pre-specifies the reco...
Sustainable recovery of aluminium from water treatment plant sludge (WTPS) offers a promising route for resource valorisation and waste reduction. In this study, Donnan dialysis (DD) is evaluated as a separation technique for recovering aluminium fro...
Membrane distillation (MD) technology has become an effective solution to freshwater scarcity due to its low energy consumption, high separation efficiency, and ability to handle highly concentrated saline wastewater. Nevertheless, issues such as mem...
This study investigates the synergistic effects of compaction pressure and vapor-induced phase separation (VIPS) on the morphological, mechanical, and initial filtration properties of activated carbon/polyethersulfone composite block membranes. Membr...
To address the high energy demand and product losses associated with separating taurine from sodium sulfate (Na2SO4) in the ethylene oxide route to taurine, electrodialytic desalination of a simulated taurine/Na2SO4 mother liquor was investigated. Th...
In vitro protein expression has gained considerable attention due to its experimental flexibility and time efficiency. This method employs essential transcriptional components and is particularly advantageous for expressing proteins that are challeng...
