Lifecycle Reliability and Translation for Carbon-Nanotube Desalination Membranes: Failure Modes across the Evidence Chain

Abstract

This critical review examines lifecycle reliability and translation in carbon-nanotube desalination membranes, with links to intelligent manufacturing and evidence governance. The organizing question is how lifecycle evidence should connect design, manufacturing, operation, degradation, and end-of-life choices. Ten or more scholarly and user-supplied records are synthesized through a mechanism-to-decision framework spanning system boundaries, measurement, representation, evaluation, translation, and governance. No experiment, participant dataset, effect estimate, or production result is invented. Particular attention is given to short-term efficiency shifting environmental or reliability costs downstream. The review argues that credible translation requires source-level traceability, explicit validity domains, failure-aware evaluation, and revalidation triggers. Google Scholar-supplied records are retained in structured APA form, and no missing DOI or pagination field is completed by conjecture.