Frontispiece: Artificial Water Channels: Towards Biomimetic Membranes for Desalination.

Keywords: bilayer membranes; biomimetic; desalination; self-assembly; water channels EN bilayer membranes biomimetic desalination self-assembly water channels 1 1 1 02/03/21 20210201 NES 210201 B Aquaporins (AQPs) are biological water channels b known for fast water transport, with complete ion exclusion. This Review by M. Barboiu et al. on page 2224 discuss the incipient developments of the first biomimetic membranes and their water filtration performances using AWCs and natural strategies to implement new paradigms for desalination. Bilayer membranes, biomimetic, desalination, self-assembly, water channels. [Extracted from the article]