title: Forward-Osmosis Desalination with Poly(Ionic Liquid) Hydrogels as Smart Draw Agents.
abstract: The combination of high desalination efficiency, negligible draw-solute leakage, nontoxicity, ease of regeneration, and effective separation to produce liquid water makes the smart draw agents developed here highly suited for forward-osmosis desalination.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Physics, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Xuelin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Physics, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Huili
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Physics, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Yating
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Physics, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Zhu
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zou
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Mathematics, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia.
authors.forename: Vincent S J
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Craig
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Guangzhao
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Physics, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Guangming
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Liu
keywords: osmotic pressure; polyelectrolytes; smart materials; stimuli-responsive; volume phase transition