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Current Advances on Nanofiber Membranes for Water Purification Applications

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Filtering Media by Electrospinning

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Electrospun nanofiber membranes have many application potentials, including air/water filtration, gas storage, sensors/electronics, and healthcare/cosmetics. The recent advances of these membranes for water filtration applications, including microfiltration, ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, reverse osmosis, forward osmosis, and membrane distillation, are reviewed here. The high porosity, adjustable pore size/pore size distribution, large range of materials choice, and available surface functionalization have provided the flexibility to tailor-design the membranes for numerous existing and emerging applications. Recent advances in electrospinning technology have further offered a variety of pathway for scale-up production of electrospun membranes, realizing its potential for water purification.

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B.S.H. thanks the financial support by the SusChEM program of the National Science Foundation (DMR-1409507) and the Electric Power Research Institute. H.M. thanks the financial support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51673011), the State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites at Beijing University of Chemical Technology (oic-201503004) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (buctrc201501).

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Ma, H., Hsiao, B.S. (2018). Current Advances on Nanofiber Membranes for Water Purification Applications. In: Focarete, M., Gualandi, C., Ramakrishna, S. (eds) Filtering Media by Electrospinning. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78163-1_2

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