Keywords
Thermal Driving
Surface Wettability
Pore Architecture
Selectivity
Membrane Fabrication
Abstract
Thermally Driven Carbon-Membrane Desalination is being reorganized around the joint demands of performance with evidence quality, resource limits, and transfer across settings. This comparative analysis considers comparing thermal-wettability coupling with ultrathin nanotube-array transport and manufacturable membrane design. The source set brings together 2 focal papers with 13 independently retrieved publications validated against DOI-registration metadata. The analysis is organized around thermal driving, surface wettability, pore architecture, selectivity, and membrane fabrication. Rather than treating reported outcomes as directly interchangeable, the review compares units of analysis, methodological commitments, and evidence limits. Across the literature, the most stable insight is that advances in thermally driven carbon-membrane desalination become credible when structure-property relationships are evaluated together and when uncertainty about operando characterization is reported explicitly. The synthesis ties method selection to use-case risk and reveals common limits on generalization, and proposes a research agenda centered on clear comparators, adversarial conditions, and inspectable evidence.
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