Biobased Polymer Membranes for Energy and Environmental Applications
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Membranes and Films".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 1152
Special Issue Editor
Interests: separation membranes; functional polymers; organic thermoelectric devices; biomaterials
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Dear Colleagues,
Natural polymers are one of the alternatives to synthetic polymers due to their unique properties and renewability. The presence of abundant functional groups leads to easy modification for tuning the properties based on the application. Growing environmental pollution due to increasing industrialization is a major issue that needs to be addressed sooner rather than later. Membrane technology plays a crucial role in gas, liquid and various other separation processes. This technology can be utilized to control pollution stemming from industrial effluents and other kinds of contamination. An emerging solution to this problem is the generation of clean energy. Rechargeable batteries are one of the solutions in which the membrane separator plays a very important role. Biobased polymers can be well utilized to solve the above mentioned problem.
This Special Issue aims to present research progress in biobased polymer membranes for energy and environmental applications.
Dr. Rajkumar Patel
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- membrane
- gas
- water
- biopolymer
- separator
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