Abstract
The preparation of porous membranes for drinking water production has been attracting attention due to the
world-wide water shortage. The porous membranes are usually prepared by the phase separation methods such as
nonsolvent induced phase separation (NIPS) and thermally induced phase separation (TIPS). Here, I mainly focused
on the TIPS membrane formation and structure control. In addition, attempts to design the membrane preparation
process are reviewed and some simulation results of phase separation process by the spinodal decomposition are
described.
