Advances in Separation and Purification with Polymeric Membranes
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Membranes and Films".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 May 2023) | Viewed by 4591
Special Issue Editor
Interests: membranes; gas adsorption and separation; carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS); wastewater; desalination; sustainable materials; surface and interface; computational chemistry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rapid growth of the membrane market was driven by advances in polymer science and membrane process engineering. Compared to other purification processes, membrane is known for its system compactness, energy efficiency, operational simplicity, and ability to overcome thermodynamic limitations. Membrane technology is displacing established molecular-separation processes by avoiding energy-intensive phase changes, achieving higher efficiency at lower cost. Membrane separation technology is widely used in gas separation, water purification, organic solvent separation, and ion exchange/transport in fuel cells and lithium-sulfur batteries.
The use of the electrospinning techniques, ionic liquids (ILs), molecular organic frameworks (MOFs), zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs), and the preparation of mixed matrix membranes (MMMs), which combine a polymeric matrix with an inorganic filler, have all blossomed over the last decade. Additionally, the two-dimensional (2D) porous organic polymer (POP) materials including the 2D covalent organic frameworks (COFs), 2D covalent triazine frameworks (CTFs), 2D graphitic carbon nitride (CN) nanosheets and 2D conjugated microporous polymers (CMPs) have shown potential in the application of gas separation, water treatment, organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN), and evaporation.
In general, this Special Issue is oriented to experimental studies and theoretical analyses of phenomena associated with and arising from separation and purification as well as process development and simulation, equipment design and fabrication. Of particular interest are articles aimed at solving separation issues encountered in emerging technologies including fields such as carbon capture, unconventional gas, green technology, biotechnology, energy storage and conversion, and resource recovery and recycling.
Dr. Zilong Liu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polymeric membranes
- 2D polymers
- gas separation
- carbon capture
- hydrogen purification
- water purification
- ion exchange
- microfiltration
- ultrafiltration
- nanofiltration
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