Novel Desalination Membranes: Material, Mechanism and Property
A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375). This special issue belongs to the section "Membrane Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (8 August 2023) | Viewed by 2045
Special Issue Editor
Interests: low dimensional carbon materials-based electro-mechanical mechanism and apparatus; multi-fields coupled flow and boundary properties at solid-fluid interfaces; mechanical property of carbon nanotube-polymer composite and the design of soft robot
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Although water covers approximately 75% of the Earth surface, its availability is getting more and more strained because of population growth, climate change, and water pollution. Despite the abundance of seawater as an alternative water resource, seawater desalination is usually limited by relatively low productivity and high energy consumption. Membrane-based desalination technologies including the state-of-the-art reverse osmosis (RO) technology have been demonstrated to be more energy efficient than thermal desalination approaches. However, conventional polymeric RO membranes still suffer deficiencies such as low fouling resistance, poor selectivity, and low stability to resist chemical/heat-induced degradation. Therefore, it has been an ever-continuous endeavor to search and explore novel desalination membranes including materials, mechanism and properties, to further improve their permeability, selectivity, chemical stability, and resistance to fouling simultaneously.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Membrane-based novel ion-selective mechanism;
- Novel materials for desalination membranes;
- Molecular-level design of desalination membranes;
- Unfouling materials, design, and mechanism;
- Tradeoff between permeability and selectivity;
- Novel membrane-based desalination systems;
- Future perspectives for desalination membranes.
Prof. Dr. Zhongqiang Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- desalination
- membranes
- osmosis/reverse osmosis
- permeability
- selectivity
- fouling
- salt rejection
- water flux
- ultrathin membrane
- unfouling materials
- desalination system
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