Fundamentals of Transport in Polymers and Membranes—Honorary Issue for Professor Giulio C. Sarti
A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymeric Membranes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 42138
Special Issue Editors
2. Institute for Materials and Processes, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Sanderson Building, Robert Stevenson Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FB, UK
Interests: mass transport; thermodynamic models; diffusion; molecular simulation; equations of state; glassy polymers; mixed matrix membranes; gas separation, CO2 capture; thermodynamics; permeation
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Interests: glassy polymers; diffusion; membranes for gas separation; transport properties; thermodynamic modelling
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Dear colleagues,
We warmly invite you to submit your original work or review article to this Special Issue of Membranes in honor of Professor Sarti.
Dr. Sarti is an Emeritus Professor at the Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, after almost 40 years in the Department of Chemical Engineering. He started his career in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University “Federico II” in Naples, and, only ten years later, he had the opportunity to enter the Department of Chemical Engineering at his home university in Bologna, where he was appointed Full Professor in 1986. He served as Head of Department, directed the National Academic Society of Chemical Engineers (GRICU), and he participated on the Editorial Board of the journal Separation and Purification Methods from 1998 to 2003. Since 2008, he has been a member of the Academy of Science of Bologna Institute, founded in 1690.
He has co-authored more than 200 publications, which have been cited over 4800 times, with a H-index of 41.
During his career, Professor Sarti always aimed at solving practically relevant problems by invoking first principles of thermodynamics and thermomechanics of continuum. His efforts were devoted, in particular, to the analysis of rheological and transport properties of polymeric materials and its application to solve industrial problems such as polymer processing and membrane separations. He is one of the authors of the Non-Equilibrium Lattice Fluid (NELF) model and of the Standard Transport (ST) models for gas sorption and permeability in glassy polymers.
To acknowledge his contribution to the field of Membranes, this Special Issue will accept contributions from his friends, collaborators and estimators who would like to present novel or review works dealing with a fundamental analysis of selective materials with application in separation processes, such as membranes and adsorbents. The studies can include experimental and/or theoretical developments, aiming at a fundamental understanding of the process of fluid transport in solid materials and of its role in the separation.
Applications of interest include but are not limited to: gas separation and CO2 capture, pervaporation, liquid permeation, water purification, organic solvent nanofiltration, bioseparations, membrane distillation, reverse osmosis, fuel cells, batteries, sensors, polymer desolventization, adsorption and polymer thermodynamics.
Topics of interest include the experimental analysis of fundamental aspects of sorption and transport in polymeric materials, such as glass transition, ageing, thin films, nanoconfinement, plasticization, swelling, competitive sorption, and stress effects. We will also welcome modeling works presenting macroscopic, atomistic, mesoscopic, or multiscale approaches that describe sorption and transport in solids.
We are looking forward to receiving your work for this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Maria Grazia De Angelis
Prof. Dr. Matteo Minelli
Guest Editors
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