Keywords
Thermal Driving
Surface Wettability
Pore Architecture
Selectivity
Membrane Fabrication
Abstract
Progress in thermally driven carbon-membrane desalination depends on more than accumulating favorable results. This critical synthesis connects a monolayer array of carbon nanotubes as nanoscale transport pores with coupling a temperature gradient with graphene-channel surface wettability and asks how measurement choices, boundary conditions, and decision costs shape the interpretation of both. The review draws on two focal records and 12 established sources already present in the project evidence cache. Its comparative framework links thermal driving, surface wettability, and pore architecture to downstream questions of selectivity and membrane fabrication. The combined literature indicates that methodological gains become actionable only when thermal driving and surface wettability are evaluated together and when limits associated with membrane fabrication are explicit. This shifts the emphasis from isolated scores toward traceable chains of evidence and decision relevance. On this basis, the review proposes an auditable pathway from focal mechanism to application claim, with explicit checkpoints for calibration, external validity, and responsible interpretation.
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