Demystifying viscous isoalkanes as the organic solvent in interfacial polymerization for manufacturing desalination membranes

Interfacial polymerization at unconventional interfaces: an emerging strategy to tailor thin-film composite membranes

“…Although the two phases involved are macroscopically immiscible, a thin layer comprising molecules from both phases invariably exists due to molecular thermal motion. 21 Therefore, at a microscopic level, the interface appears to be indistinct. Besides, polymerization typically does not take place exactly at the interface but instead, it occurs in one of the two phases in close proximity to the interface.…”