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Nature Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2026-07-20 DOI: 10.1038/s44286-026-00422-y

Mo Qiao

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Battery electrolyte design using process engineering principles 利用过程工程原理设计电池电解液

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Nature Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2026-07-14 DOI: 10.1038/s44286-026-00411-1

Chang-Xin Zhao, Qiu Zhang, Tengrui Wang, Pei Li, Chunsheng Wang

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The importance of separation optimizations in CO2 electrolysis CO2电解分离优化的重要性

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Nature Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2026-07-14 DOI: 10.1038/s44286-026-00417-9

Bjørt Óladóttir Joensen, Brian Seger

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Interfacial rheology for physics-based structuring of polyamide desalination membranes 聚酰胺脱盐膜物理结构界面流变学研究

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Nature Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2026-07-13 DOI: 10.1038/s44286-026-00419-7

Qingchen Tang, Panjia Jiang, Hao Chen, Hanyu Wu, Yu Chen, Wu Jin, Xingwang Meng, Denghui Li, Shan Chang, Zhiyang Zhu, Xinglin Lu, Song-Chuan Zhao, Yizhou Zhang, Menachem Elimelech, Xunda Feng

{"title":"Interfacial rheology for physics-based structuring of polyamide desalination membranes","authors":"Qingchen Tang, Panjia Jiang, Hao Chen, Hanyu Wu, Yu Chen, Wu Jin, Xingwang Meng, Denghui Li, Shan Chang, Zhiyang Zhu, Xinglin Lu, Song-Chuan Zhao, Yizhou Zhang, Menachem Elimelech, Xunda Feng","doi":"10.1038/s44286-026-00419-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44286-026-00419-7","url":null,"abstract":"Fluid interfaces with dynamic composition and microstructures exhibit complex rheological behavior, which plays a crucial role in various chemical and biological processes, including stabilizing emulsions and foams and facilitating vital respiratory activities. The study reveals the critical influence of this two-dimensional rheology in governing the dynamics of interfacial polymerization—the gold standard method for fabricating state-of-the-art polyamide (PA) desalination membranes. Here, by leveraging photoreactive amphiphiles to precisely tune the interfacial rheology at the water–oil interface, we achieve control over patterned fluid instabilities during interfacial polymerization and, correspondingly, the membrane surface morphology. The resulting PA membranes exhibit macroscopically uniform hollow-ridged structures with length scales strongly correlated with effective interfacial viscosity. Consequently, these PA membranes exhibit high nanofiltration performance, achieving up to 99.8% Na2SO4 rejection with a water permeance of 44.15 l m−2 h−1 bar−1. Importantly, we demonstrate the scalability of this approach through module-scale membrane fabrication with consistent performance. This physics-based approach to regulating interfacial rheology represents an important advancement in controlled membrane fabrication for sustainable water purification. This study quantifies how interfacial mechanics govern interfacial polymerization. Using photoreactive amphiphiles to precisely tune two-dimensional rheology at the water–oil interface, this approach links interfacial viscosity to the instability-selected length scale of hollow-ridged polyamide morphology, establishing a physics-based route to scalable, high-performance polyamide membranes.","PeriodicalId":501699,"journal":{"name":"Nature Chemical Engineering","volume":"3 7","pages":"390-401"},"PeriodicalIF":29.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148560100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Intermittency in alkaline water electrolysis 碱水电解时间歇性

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Nature Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2026-07-10 DOI: 10.1038/s44286-026-00408-w

Qihao Sha, Bin Liu

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Modular macromolecular design unlocks high-performance silica scale inhibitors 模块化大分子设计解锁高性能二氧化硅阻垢剂

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Nature Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2026-07-09 DOI: 10.1038/s44286-026-00416-w

Yinan Chen, Zhongren Jiao, Victoria Meola, Yuchu Liu, Charles Chen, Masashi Kaneda, Jiawei He, Jae-Man Park, Yifan Sun, Leo Zhang, Yazhen Xue, Menachem Elimelech, Mingjiang Zhong

{"title":"Modular macromolecular design unlocks high-performance silica scale inhibitors","authors":"Yinan Chen, Zhongren Jiao, Victoria Meola, Yuchu Liu, Charles Chen, Masashi Kaneda, Jiawei He, Jae-Man Park, Yifan Sun, Leo Zhang, Yazhen Xue, Menachem Elimelech, Mingjiang Zhong","doi":"10.1038/s44286-026-00416-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44286-026-00416-w","url":null,"abstract":"Silica scaling presents a longstanding challenge in industrial water systems, including heat exchangers, pipelines and membrane separation, where uncontrolled polymerization of silicic acid causes irreversible fouling and operational decline. Polymeric antiscalants offer promising mitigation; however, their design remains limited by incomplete molecular-level understanding. Here we introduce a modular synthetic platform that integrates controlled radical polymerization with post-polymerization modification to generate polymeric silica inhibitors with independently tunable chain length, functionality and conformation. Combining computation with experiment, we establish key structure–property relationships governing inhibition performance. We further identify a critical limitation of conventional designs: polymers displaying high inhibition efficiency sometimes aggregate and self-precipitate, compromising stability and long-term efficacy. Guided by these mechanistic insights, we develop inhibitors that sustain above 75% inhibition efficiency without precipitation. In a cooling-tower simulator, these polymers maintained effective silica control and preserved high thermal-transfer efficiency over extended operation. This work provides a molecular design framework for next-generation polymeric antiscalants, advancing scalable strategies for silica mitigation in sustainable water treatment and industrial infrastructure. This study develops a modular synthetic platform for highly tunable polymeric silica scale inhibitors. Systematic investigation of structure–performance relationships reveals how chain microstructure governs scale inhibition, enabling the identification and validation of optimal designs for sustained silica suppression in a bench-scale cooling-tower simulator.","PeriodicalId":501699,"journal":{"name":"Nature Chemical Engineering","volume":"3 8","pages":"470-480"},"PeriodicalIF":29.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148807813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Author Correction: Engineering MOx/Ni inverse catalysts for low-temperature CO2 activation with high methane yields 作者更正：工程MOx/Ni反催化剂低温CO2活化与高甲烷产量

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Nature Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2026-06-26 DOI: 10.1038/s44286-026-00414-y

Chuqiao Song, Jinjia Liu, Ruihang Wang, Xin Tang, Kun Wang, Zirui Gao, Mi Peng, Haibo Li, Siyu Yao, Feng Yang, Hanfeng Lu, Zuwei Liao, Xiao-Dong Wen, Ding Ma, Xiaonian Li, Lili Lin

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Photoreforming of solid waste on 1 m2 scale using single-source precursor-derived co-catalyst films 利用单源前驱体衍生的共催化剂薄膜在1平方米规模上对固体废物进行光重整

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Nature Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2026-06-24 DOI: 10.1038/s44286-026-00406-y

Ariffin Bin Mohamad Annuar, Yongpeng Liu (, ), Subhajit Bhattacharjee, Jonathan Slaughter, Iuliia Mikulska, Farheen N. Sayed, Clare P. Grey, Dominic S. Wright, Erwin Reisner

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New layers in additive manufacturing 增材制造的新层次

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Nature Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2026-06-23 DOI: 10.1038/s44286-026-00415-x

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Finite particles defy chaotic mixing 有限粒子无视混沌混合

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Nature Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2026-06-23 DOI: 10.1038/s44286-026-00400-4

Yuyi Liu, Steven Wang

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