TY - JOUR
T1 - Nanoarchitectonics for electrospun membranes with asymmetric wettability
AU - Chen, Jiwang
AU - Low, Ze-Xian
AU - Feng, Shasha
AU - Zhong, Zhaoxiang
AU - Xing, Weihong
AU - Wang, Huanting
N1 - Funding Information:
Financial support was provided by the National Key Research and Development Project of China (2018YFE0203500), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21838005, 21921006, 21878148), the Key Industrial R&D International Cooperation Project (BZ2018004), and Jiangsu Province Scientific Supporting Project (BE2019117).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2021/12/16
Y1 - 2021/12/16
N2 - Membranes with asymmetric wettability have attracted significant interest by virtue of their unique transport characteristics and functionalities arising from different wetting behaviors of each membrane surface. The cross-sectional wettability distinction enables a membrane to realize directional liquid transport or multifunction integration, resulting in rapid advance in applications, such as moisture management, fog collection, oil-water separation, and membrane distillation. Compared with traditional homogeneous membranes, these membranes possess enhanced transport performance and higher separation efficiency owing to the synergistic or individual effects of asymmetric wettability. This Review covers the recent progress in fabrication, transport mechanisms, and applications of electrospun membranes with asymmetric wettability and provides a perspective on future development in this important area.
AB - Membranes with asymmetric wettability have attracted significant interest by virtue of their unique transport characteristics and functionalities arising from different wetting behaviors of each membrane surface. The cross-sectional wettability distinction enables a membrane to realize directional liquid transport or multifunction integration, resulting in rapid advance in applications, such as moisture management, fog collection, oil-water separation, and membrane distillation. Compared with traditional homogeneous membranes, these membranes possess enhanced transport performance and higher separation efficiency owing to the synergistic or individual effects of asymmetric wettability. This Review covers the recent progress in fabrication, transport mechanisms, and applications of electrospun membranes with asymmetric wettability and provides a perspective on future development in this important area.
KW - asymmetric membrane
KW - asymmetric wettability
KW - directional liquid transport
KW - membrane separation
KW - surface modification
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U2 - 10.1021/acsami.1c16047
DO - 10.1021/acsami.1c16047
M3 - Review Article
C2 - 34913668
AN - SCOPUS:85121916376
SN - 1944-8244
VL - 13
SP - 60763
EP - 60788
JO - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
JF - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
IS - 51
ER -