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Direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) is an emerging technology gaining attraction in seawater desalination and concentration of aqueous solutions. In this study, a facile surface modification strategy using hydrophobic ZIF-8 and a fluoroalkylsilane (FAS) was employed to improve the performance of commercial PVDF and PVDF/PTFE blend membranes. The PVDF/PTFE membrane modified using 10 wt./vol % hydrophobic ZIF-8 and 1 H, 1 H, 2 H, 2 H-perfluorooctyltriethoxysilane (PFOTES) exhibited the highest water contact angle (121 ± 4.7°), improved surface roughness (51.6 ± 1.4 nm), most significant vapor flux (17.6 ± 2 L/m 2 h), and salt rejection of 99.98% with 10,000 ppm NaCl synthetic feed solution at the optimum operating conditions. The surface-engineered membranes exhibited excellent anti-fouling (360 minutes) and anti-wetting performance (240 minutes) when challenged with saline feed solution containing 50 ppm sodium alginate solution and 0.1 mM sodium dodecyl sulfate, respectively. The surface engineered membranes produced permeate of uniform quality for&gt;10 h and could recover~31% water during actual seawater desalination (10 h). Moreover, these membranes could concentrate propylene glycol by a factor of 1.24 within 6 h and retain&gt;80% of it. This facile surface modification strategy holds an excellent potential to be further explored for commercial applications.

Investigating the performance of surface-engineered membranes for direct contact membrane distillation