Anti-fouling membranes for ultrafiltration

The shortage of clean, safe and fresh water is a major threat to the environment, health and global food security. In 2025, one-third of world population will face severe water scarcity. Global climate change, global urbanization and increasing demands for fresh water has become the new challenges to the world’s water resources. Therefore, it would be a serious issue for the developing countries in the world. The best solution to overcome the water scarcity may lie in materials and strategies based on membrane separation technology. Membrane separation is a feasible technology, which used extremely to address the problem of water scarcity through separates the materials selectively via pores and minute gaps in the molecular arrangement of a continuous structure. It has many outstanding properties such as low cost, simple operation, small footprint, relatively high filtration efficiency