financially supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.2021qntd13);the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(No.2022A1515010021)。
Forward osmosis(FO)as an energy-saving membrane process has attracted much attention in food concentration,water treatment,and desalination.Thin film composite(TFC)membrane is the most popular FO membrane,but it suffe...
Imogolite is a natural nanotubular aluminum silicate clay mineral found in volcanic soils. Its well-defined, tunable structure makes it a good candidate for studying water confinement in a one-dimensional (1D) struc...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 50403008 and 20423003);the NSFC Fund for Creative Research Groups (Grant No. 50621302)
Morphology of synthetic imogolite nanotubes formed in droplet evaporation was investigated by transmission electron microscopy and electron diffraction. The nanotubes form a dense entangled network at higher concentra...
The Heimugou loess profile in Luochuan County, Shaanxi Province is 135 m thick, and the stratum being continuous and intact, typical in the loess area. The authors found some extremely fine filar substances when inves...