Functional Membranes: From Synthesis To Applications
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Processing and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2022) | Viewed by 8938
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Membranes represent an essential component in many industries and applications. They could be used in simple purification applications such as separation and removing micron-size materials and pollutants to more advanced applications for selective separation/passage of nano-size ones, as well as ions soluble in water or other media. Advanced membranes could also be highly selective toward the separation/passage of specific materials via a proper insertion of functional groups and/or controlling their microscopic structure. Membranes made from polymers have been used and investigated for several years; they are still at the focus of many researchers due to the huge possibilities for the preparation of new membranes materials with new functionalities using chemical and physical routes. The emergence of new technologies (electro-spinning, ultra-thin film spin-coating, etc.) to membrane manufacturing significantly amplifies the possibilities for designing novel membranes and opens avenues for more applications in different areas of our life.
This Special Issue is dedicated to the latest cutting-edge research in the synthesis of new polymeric materials with potential use in membranes in different applications, use of recent technologies for assembling membranes with new functionalities and selectivity, recent characterization tools for membranes for a better understanding and to improve their performance, and theoretical modeling for predicting and maximizing the efficiency of membranes.
Prof. Dr. Mohammad Hassan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- membranes
- natural polymers
- synthetic polymers
- modification
- characterization
- modeling
- manufacturing technologies