Carbon-Nanomaterial-Based Membranes: Fabrication, Characterization, and Application
A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375). This special issue belongs to the section "Membrane Fabrication and Characterization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 306
Special Issue Editors
Interests: membrane separation; nanocomposites; environmental functional materials; process intensification; wa-ter/wastewater treatment
Interests: membrane-based separation processes; wastewater treatment and resource recovery; synthesis and appli-cation of water treatment materials
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Interests: electrochemical membranes; electrochemistry; nano-composites; bipolar membranes; ion-exchange mem-branes; membrane manufacturing; thin films; hollow fibers; water and wastewater treatment; value from waste
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Carbon nanomaterials (e.g., carbon nanotubes (CNTs), graphene, graphene oxide (GO), and carbon quantum dots (CQDs)) have been recognized for their exceptional electrical, thermal, and physical properties, as well as for their ability to impart these properties to the enhancement of membranes. Such nanocomposite membranes have gained attention for their synergistic adsorptive, reactive, catalytic, electrochemical, and/or conductive properties, which are imparted by carbon nanomaterials, thereby enabling a wide array of engineered applications such as electrified water treatment, membrane catalysis, desalination, gas separation, sensing, energy storage, biomedical applications, and process intensification. The focus of research has been on increasing membrane selectivity, fortifying membrane mechanical durability, mitigating fouling, enhancing (electro)catalytic performance, and reducing costs for scale-up and bulk manufacturing. Moreover, the chemistry and materials implemented for the synthesis of carbon-nanomaterial-based composite membranes have been improved for surface modification, bulk modification, and thin film deposition.
This Special Issue, “Carbon-Nanomaterial-Based Membranes: Fabrication, Characterization, and Application”, welcomes original papers and reviews on the rational synthesis, characterization, understanding, and application of novel carbon-nanomaterial-based membranes with regard to topics such as liquid and gas separation, fouling mitigation, thermal and energy storage, contaminant degradation, membrane modeling, and other novel membrane applications. All submissions to this Special Issue will go through a peer-review process. Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript.
Dr. Yichen Wu
Dr. Ming Chen
Dr. Charles-François de Lannoy
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- carbon nanomaterials
- nanocomposites
- separation techniques
- membrane modification
- membrane process intensification
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