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Desalination

Desalination is a water treatment process that removes dissolved salts and minerals from saline water to produce potable or usable freshwater, distinguishing it from other purification methods by specifically targeting salt content reduction.

9.4K

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581.6K

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24.1K

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3.7K

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2017–2026

5.3K

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Publications

9.4K

The Future of Seawater Desalination: Energy, Technology, and the Environment

Menachem Elimelech, William A. Phillip · Science · 2011 · 6.5K citations

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Water Desalination across Nanoporous Graphene

David Cohen‐Tanugi, Jeffrey C. Grossman · Nano Letters · 2012 · 2.2K citations

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Review on the science and technology of water desalination by capacitive deionization

S. Porada, Ruifeng Zhao, Albert van der Wal et al. · Progress in Materials Science · 2013 · 2.1K citations · Full text

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State-of-the-art of reverse osmosis desalination

Clemens Fritzmann, Jonas Löwenberg, Thomas Wintgens et al. · Desalination · 2007 · 2K citations

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Water desalination using nanoporous single-layer graphene

Sumedh P. Surwade, Sergei Smirnov, Ivan Vlassiouk et al. · Nature Nanotechnology · 2015 · 1.7K citations · Full text

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Authors

24.1K

  1. ME
    Menachem Elimelech

    Yale University, United States

    62 publications · 17.8K citations

    47

    h-index

  2. JH
    John H. Lienhard

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    64 publications · 6.7K citations

    42

    h-index

  3. KC
    Kim Choon Ng

    National University of Singapore, Singapore

    55 publications · 5.4K citations

    40

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  4. AK
    A.E. Kabeel

    Tanta University, Egypt

    56 publications · 3.5K citations

    38

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  5. NG
    Noreddine Ghaffour

    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

    45 publications · 6.1K citations

    36

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Institutions

3.7K

  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    73 h-index

    448 publications

    64.1K citations

  2. National University of Singapore

    Singapore, Singapore

    68 h-index

    365 publications

    37K citations

  3. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    68 h-index

    687 publications

    53K citations

  4. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

    Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    66 h-index

    514 publications

    66.1K citations

  5. King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

    Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

    59 h-index

    420 publications

    27.9K citations

  6. Nanyang Technological University

    Singapore, Singapore

    52 h-index

    310 publications

    26.8K citations

  7. Tanta University

    Tanta, Egypt

    51 h-index

    158 publications

    10K citations

  8. Tsinghua University

    Beijing, China

    50 h-index

    360 publications

    36.8K citations

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Venues

  1. Desalination

    2.5K publications · 163.9K citations

    161

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  2. Journal of Membrane Science

    286 publications · 26.5K citations

    91

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  3. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

    172 publications · 14.6K citations

    74

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  4. Environmental Science & Technology

    126 publications · 13.4K citations

    67

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  5. Energy Conversion and Management

    178 publications · 11K citations

    63

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