Thin film nanocomposite reverse osmosis membrane incorporated with UiO-66 nanoparticles for enhanced boron removal

The removal of boron from seawater remains a challenge and now receives increasing attention worldwide. Boron removal rates offered by conventional reverse osmosis membranes through one-pass desalination processes are not sufficient to achieve WHO standard. In this paper, the UiO-66 nanoparticles, a metal-organic framework (MOF), are proposed to incorporate into the polyamide (PA)-based thin film nanocomposite (TFN) reverse osmosis (RO) membrane...