As water scarcity continues expanding in regions around the globe, there is an everincreasing need to augment municipal, industrial, and agricultural water supplies through the puriication of unconventional water sources, such as seawater, industrial and municipal wastewater. Due to the inextricable linkage between water and energy consumption, often called the water-energy nexus, the augmentation of water supplies must not come with a high cost energy consumption. As such, the high energy eiciency and often superior eicacy of membrane-based technologies have gained widespread implementation in various water treatment processes. Membranes allow passage of water, but largely reject salt and most other solutes, play a critical role in the majority of these processes. These types of membranes lie at the heart of traditional reverse osmosis (RO) processes.