Development and Application of New Membrane Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Membrane separation technology has been widely used in varisou fields, such as wastewater treatment, desalination, gas separation, etc. The core of the membrane technology is the membrane itself. In general, a trade-off phenomenon exists between permeability and selectivity for membranes, which are predominantly determined by the physicochemical properties of the membrane material. Massive efforts have been devoted to overcoming this deep-rooted problem via designing new materials, tailoring material structures, chemical mofidications, post-treatment, and developing membrane fabrication technology. Though tremendous advancements have been achieved in enhancing the separation properties during the past decades, a great surpass of trade-off limitation demands further efforts.

This Special Issue on “Development and application of New membrane materials” seeks high quality works focusing on the latest novel advances membrane technology for both gas and liquid separation. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Polymeric material synthesis, structure design and chemical modification, post-treatment;
• Nanomaterial (zero dimension to three dimension materials) synthesis, structure design;
• Composite and mixed matrix membranes;
• Applications of developed new membrane material.

Dr. Liang Shen
Dr. Xuan Zhang
Guest Editors

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• membranes
• materials
• separation technology
• polymeric membranes
• inorganic membranes
• mixed matrix membranes