Engineering omniphobic corrugated membranes for scaling mitigation in membrane distillation

Membrane scaling is unavoidable when treating highly concentrated and even supersaturated brine in the continuous membrane distillation (MD) process. Omniphobic membranes with higher nucleation energy barriers could partially mitigate the membrane scaling. Herein, we fabricated omniphobic corrugated membranes to further alleviate membrane scaling via the synergistic effects of omniphobicity and corrugation on the membrane surface. The scaling …