2025

693.Cui Yang#, Yu Huang#, Wanjie Song, Shiyan Xiao, Xiaolin Ge*, Tongwen Xu*. Molecular-Level Energy Dissipation and Micropore Engineering Synergistically Enhance Anion Exchange Membrane Performance. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2026, 65, e25998.

692.Xiaojiang Li#, Fen Luo#, Xian Liang, Jihao Zhang, Wenfeng Li, Jingjing Tu, Luxin Xiong, Weisheng Yu*, Liang Wu*, Tongwen Xu*. Pretreatment-free direct seawater electrolysis using chloride-blocking bipolar membranes. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2026, 148, 2419-2428.

691.Gonggen Tang, Kang Peng, Zhengjin Yang*, Tongwen Xu*. Potential Posolytes for Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries. Advanced Energy Materials. 2026, 16, e04207.

690.Rene Ling, Zirui Zhang, Wenyi Wu, Gonggen Tang, Peipei Zuo, Siyu Chen, Kang Peng, Zhengjin Yang*, Tongwen Xu*. Sulfonated microporous polymer membrane for dendrite-free pH-neutral aqueous zinc hybrid flow batteries. Chemical Engineering Science, 2026, 320, 122624.

689.Simian Fei, Liang Ge*, Tongwen Xu*. Next-generation PBI-based ISMs: game changer of low-alkali water electrolysis. SCIENCE CHINA Materials, 2026.

688.Tongwen Xu*. Half-Century of Membranology Excellence: A Scholar's Journey with JMS through Collaborative Innovation. Journal of Membrane Science, 2026, 737, 124372.

687.Junying Yan#, Chenxiao Jiang#, Xiongzhi Zeng#, Wanjie Song, Jie Yang, Xiaolin Ge, Liang Wu, Zhengjin Yang, Zhenyu Li*, Yaoming Wang*, Tongwen Xu*. Synthesis of deuterated acids and bases using bipolar membranes. Nature, 2025, 643, 961-966.

686. Peipei Zuo, Tongwen Xu*. Constructing Hydrophilic Polymer Membranes with Microporosity for Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries. ChemSusChem, 2025, 18, e202402562.

685. Xingya Li#, Peipei Zuo#, Xiaolin Ge, Zhengjin Yang, Tongwen Xu*. Constructing new-generation ion exchange membranes under confinement regime. Natl. Sci. Rev., 2025, 12, nwae439.

684. 王梓豪, 闫军营, 王报英, 汪耀明*, 徐铜文*. 离子膜分离技术在过程工业减排和流程再造中的应用进展. 中国科学: 化学, 2025, 55(9): 2782–2796.

683. Shuang Wu, Ruirui Li, Junying Yan, Baoying Wang, Yaoming Wang*, Tongwen Xu*. Fabrication of asymmetric charge distribution mosaic membranes for ionic current rectification. Journal of Membrane Science, 2025, 733, 124318.

682.  Xian Liang#, Weisheng Yu#, Longlong Sun, Wenfeng Li, Yan Xu, Zhiru Liu, Mai Xu, Xiaolin Ge, Quan Liu*, Liang Wu*, Tongwen Xu*. Turing-Patterned Catalyst-Ionomer Architectures for Enhanced Mass Transport in AEMFCs. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2025, 147, 21916-21925.

681. Baoying Wang, Ruirui Li, Zhenzhen Cui, Zihao Wang, Weicheng Fu, Junying Yan, Chenxiao Jiang, Liang Wu, Tongwen Xu, Yaoming Wang*.Facile design of a crown ether-functionalized polymeric membrane for highly efficient lithium and magnesium separation during electrodialysis. Chemical Engineering Science, 2025, 302, 120865.

680. Wenhao Zou, Gonggen Tang, Kang Peng, Xiaowei Mo, Tao Hu, Zhengjin Yang*, Tongwen Xu*. Quinuclidinium-Based Microporous Anion Exchange Membranes for Water Electrolysis. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2025, 64, e202514264.

679.Gonggen Tang#, Kang Peng#, Yahua Liu#, Junkai Fang#, Wenyi Wu, Zhengjin Yang*, Tongwen Xu*, Propylene-Bridged Associative Bis(bipyridinium) Electrolytes for Long-Lifetime Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2025, 64, e202501458.

678. Qinshan Zhu, Linhan Ni, Kang Peng, Jiaxin Liu, Wenbo Wu*, Guifeng Liang, Zhenwei Zhang, Fangmeng Sheng, Peipei Zuo*, Tongwen Xu*. Fluorine-Engineered Membranes Break the Conductivity-Selectivity Trade-Off in Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2025, 64, e202510497.

677. Fen Luo#, Weisheng Yu#, Xiaojiang Li, Xian Liang, Wenfeng Li, Fanglin Duan, Yaoming Wang, Xiaolin Ge, Liang Wu*, Tongwen Xu*. Enhanced Bipolar Membranes for Durable Ampere-Level Water Electrolysis. Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18, 728-737.

676. Siyu Chen, Kang Peng, Xinchi Ma, Shuo Yang, Chenxiao Jiang, Zhengjin Yang*, Tongwen Xu. Ion exchange membranes derived from polymers of intrinsic microporosity for redox flow batteries. MRS Energy & Sustainability, 2025, 12, 301-318.

675. Fanglin Duan, Xiaojiang Li, Fen Luo, Tingkun Li, Weisheng Yu, Liang Wu*, Tongwen Xu*. Advanced bipolar membranes with earth-abundant water dissociation catalysts for durable ampere-level water electrolysis. Advanced Membranes, 2025, 5, 100152.

674. Guangzhong Cao#, Zirui Zhang#, Xiaoqi Yang, Liang Wu, Zhaoming Liu, Chenxiao Jiang*, Tongwen Xu*, Polydopamine modified bipolar membrane for water electrolysis under fluctuating current. Separation and Purification Technology, 2025, 363, 132028.

673. Weisheng Yu#, Fen Luo#, Xian Liang, Chenxiao Jiang, Yan Xu, Zhiru Liu, Quanfu An, Michael D. Guiver*, Liang Wu*, Tongwen Xu*. Ionomeric binders in polymer electrolyte fuel cells: roles, challenges, and advances. Chem. Soc. Rev., 2025, 54, 9407.

672. Wanjie Song#, Xiaolin Ge#, Liang Wu, Zhengjin Yang, Tongwen Xu*. Bottlenecks of commercializing anion exchange membranes for energy devices. Joule, 2025, 9, 102051.

671. Junkai Fang#, Guozhen Zhang#, Marc-Antoni Goulet, Peipei Zuo, Yu Zhou, Hui Li, Jun Jiang, Michael D. Guiver, Zhengjin Yang*, Tongwen Xu*. High selectivity framework polymer membranes chemically tuned towards fast anion conduction. Nat. Commun., 2025, 16, 3282.

670. Gonggen Tang, Wenyi Wu, Yahua Liu, Kang Peng, Peipei Zuo, Zhengjin Yang*, Tongwen Xu*. Adjusting Hirshfeld charge of TEMPO catholytes for stable all-organic aqueous redox flow batteries. Nat. Commun., 2025, 16, 47.

669. Noor Ul Afsar, Michael Holmboe, C. André Ohlin, Niaz Ali Khan, Liang Ge*, Tongwen Xu, Naser Tavajohi*. Monovalent anion-selective membranes fabricated via in situ interfacial polymerization. Nat. Commun., 2025, 16, 9120.

668. Hao Zhang, Ming Yong, Ting Hu, Yuan Kang, Zhuyuan Wang, Zhonghao Xu, Xuefeng Li, Xin Sun, Lijun Guo, Fangmeng Sheng, Xiangkang Zeng, Zhikao Li, Xingya Li*, Huanting Wang, Tongwen Xu*, Xiwang Zhang*. Multifunctional intercalants create stable subnanochannels in MoS2 membranes for wastewater treatment. Nat. Commun.,2025, 16, 8353.

667. Wanjie Song#, Xiang Liu#, Yong Guan, Xu Ding, Yu Bai, Jinyu Nie, Yaoming Wang, Liang Wu, Xiaolin Ge*, Tongwen Xu*. Covalent catalyst immobilization in cross-linked ionomers for durable pure water anion exchange membrane electrolysis. Nat. Commun., 2025, 16, 10349. 

666. Yifan Li, Zheng Liu, Daojiang Zhu, Yuan Xia, Bin Wu, Tingting Xu*, Xingya Li*, Tongwen Xu*. Porous Organic Cage Mixed Matrix Membranes for Efficient Enantioseparation. Nat. Commun., 2025, 16, 11699.

665. Cui Yang#, Yu Huang#, Wanjie Song, Mingyue Wu, Jinyu Nie, Yaoming Wang, Liang Wu, Xiaolin Ge*, Tongwen Xu*. Enhanced OH- Conductivity and Alkaline Stability of AEM by Pyrene Stacking backbone for Water Electrolysis. Sci. China Mater., 2025, 68(10), 3657-3666.

664. Rui Jia#, Zheng Ji#, Xingyun Li, Qinshan Zhu, Jiu Yang, Ruonan Tan, Zongliang Wan, Jingjing Gu, Ziqiang Hong, Cenfeng Fu*, Jin Ran*, Suixin Zhang, Peipei Zuo*, Tongwen Xu*. Reconfiguring hydration shells by rigidly confined interaction within graphene oxide membranes for ultra-efficient anion separation. Sci. China Mater., 2025.

663. Dong Huang, Xiaohui Ge, Qian Chen, Simian Fei, Qiuhua Li, Liang Ge*, Tongwen Xu*. Acid-Base Pairs Engineering Enables Ultra-Selective Lithium-Magnesium Separation via Sulfonated Polybenzimidazole Membranes. Sci. China Mater., 2025, 68(9), 3359-3367.

662. Huiqing Liu, Huangying Wang, Liuhuimei Cheng, Junying Yan, Ruirui Li, Duyi He, Zihao Wang, Weicheng Fu, Baoying Wang, Yaoming Wang*, Tongwen Xu*. Beyond Conventional Chlor-alkali: The Anion-Exchange Membrane Breakthrough. AIChE Journal, 2025, 71, e70037.

661. Songhui Wang, Tianle Gu, Guangzhong Cao, Xiao Liu, Weixiang Shan, Zhaoming Liu, Rongqiang Fu, Chenxiao Jiang*, Tongwen Xu*. Innovative Packed-Bed Ion-Distillation for Direct Lithium Extraction,  AIChE Journal, 2025, 71, e18905.

660. Tingting Xu, Zheng Liu, Xingya Li*, Tongwen Xu*. The Evolution of Metal-Organic Framework Membranes: From Laboratory Innovation to Industrial Implementations. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2025, 64, 9847-9866.

659. Junying Yan, Yuxuan Xia, Jie Yang, Liuhuimei Cheng, Huiqing Liu, Baoying Wang, Ruirui Li, Yaoming Wang*, Tongwen Xu*. Selective electrodialysis with bipolar membranes for cobalt and lithium recovery from spent lithium-ion batteries. AIChE Journal, 2025, 71, e18786.

658. Wenhao Zou, Kang Peng, Rene Ling, Qixuan Li, Yulin Liu, Tongwen Xu, Zhengjin Yang*. Robust and Ultrathin Pore-Filling Anion Exchange Membranes for Water Electrolysis. AIChE Journal, 2025, 71, e18769.

657.Zheng Liu#, Qiaoyun Ye#, Qian Chen, Liang Ge, Xingya Li *, Tongwen Xu*. Highly stable cation-exchange membranes for lithium recovery from acidic lithium ore leachate. Advanced Membranes, 2025, 5, 100155.

656.Baoying Wang, Zhenzhen Cui, Ruirui Li, Zihao Wang, Weicheng Fu, Junying Yan, Chenxiao Jiang, Liang Wu, Yaoming Wang* , Tongwen Xu*. Efficient separation of bismuth(III) by tertiary amine-functionalized polymeric membranes in electrodialysis. Journal of Membrane Science, 2025, 736, 124700.

655.Liuhuimei Cheng, Junying Yan, Huiqing Liu, Ruirui Li, Duyi He, Zihao Wang, Weicheng Fu, Baoying Wang, Yaoming Wang*, Tongwen Xu*. Alcohol dissociation of bipolar membranes in methanol‒ethanol mixtures. Journal of Membrane Science, 2025, 735, 124538.

654.Weisheng Yu#, Fen Luo#, Xiaojiang Li, Jingjing Tu, Xian Liang, Yan Xu, Zhiru Liu, Wenfeng Li, Jihao Zhang, Luxin Xiong, Huijuan Wang, Liang Wu*, Tongwen Xu*. All-in-One Bipolar Membrane Electrode Assembly for Water Electrolysis. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2025, 17, 56189-56196.

653.Shuai Kong, Liuhuimei Cheng, Junying Yan, Huiqing Liu, Ruirui Li, Baoying Wang, Yaoming Wang*, Tongwen Xu*. Green synthesis of C3 metal alkoxides: First evidence of isopropanol dissociation in bipolar membranes. Chem. Eng. Sci., 2026, 320, 122438.

652.Tianle Gu#, Zirui Zhang#, Yunxin Ma, Xiao Liu, Weixiang Shan, Songhui Wang, Kaichen Zhang, Wenjie An, Liang Wu, Zhaoming Liu, Rongqiang Fu, Chenxiao Jiang*, Tongwen Xu*. Innovative Reuleaux Triangle Spacer Design for Enhanced Electro-Membrane Processes: Mitigating Concentration Polarization and Boosting Efficiency. Chem. Eng. Sci., 2025, 313, 121746.

651.Simian Fei, Peng Zou, Qian Chen, Ziyi Ding, Dong Huang, Liang Ge*, Tongwen Xu*. Pilot-scale monovalent anion selective membranes with hydrophobic crosslinked side-chains for efficient anion separation. Journal of Membrane Science, 2025, 736, 124626.

650.Siyu Chen, Kang Peng, Wenhao Zou, Xinchi Ma, Rene Ling, Shuo Yang, Zhengjin Yang*, Tongwen Xu. π-π Interaction Engineered Membranes for pH-Neutral Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries. Advanced Functional Materials, 2025, 0, e28708.

649. Ziyi Ding#, Qian Wu#, Zheng Chen, Zhenghui Zhang*, Liang Ge*, Tongwen Xu*. Polyacylation as a Versatile Route toward High-Performance Ion Exchange Membranes. Macromolecules, 2025, 58, 11952−11966.

648.Guangzhong Cao#, Kaichen Zhang#, Xiao Liu, Shiyi Zhang, Chenxiao Jiang*, Tongwen Xu*. Electrodialysis and electrolysis for efficient and sustainable recycling of spent lithium-ion batteries. Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2025, 86, 45-63.