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Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Spas D. Kolev
School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Tel. +61 3 8344 7931; Fax: +61 3 9347 5180
Website: http://www2.chemistry.unimelb.edu.au/staff/spas/research/Spas.htm
E-Mail: s.kolev@unimelb.edu.au
Interests: electrochemical sensors; optodes; gas sensors; flow analysis; membrane studies; environmental monitoring; polymer inclusion membranes; membrane mass transfer

Managing Editor
Ms. Yang Yang
MDPI Haidian Office, Yingu Mansion, Suite 815, North 4th Ring Road West, 9, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China
Tel. +86 10 62800830
E-Mail: yang.yang@mdpi.com

Publisher
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
MDPI AG, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 79 322 33 79
Website: http://www.mdpi.org/lin/
E-Mail: lin@mdpi.com

Editorial Board

Prof. Dr. Yoshinari Baba
Department of Applied Chemistry, Miyazaki University, Gakuen-Kibanadai Nishi 1-1, Miyazaki, Japan
Tel. +81 985 587 307; Fax: +81 985 587 323
E-Mail: t0g202u@cc.miyazaki-u.ac.jp
Interests: membrane; extraction; ion exchange; adsorption; chitin and chitosan; metal recovery

Prof. Dr. Jay B. Benziger
Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Engineering Quad., Room A-407, Princeton, NJ 08544-5263, USA
Tel. +1 609 2585416; Fax: +1 609 2580211
Website: http://www.princeton.edu/cbe/people/faculty/benziger/
E-Mail: benziger@princeton.edu
Interests: reaction engineering of organic vapor phase deposition; dynamics of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells; recovery of thiols for hydrocarbon streams; developing a large-scale liquid scintillation detector
Contribution: In other journals:
Special Issue: Sol-Gel Technique
Special Issue: Sol-Gel Technique

Prof. Dr. Henny J.M. Bouwmeester
Science and Technology, University of Twente, Meander, ME 349, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 534 892202; Fax: +31 534 894683
Website: http://www.utwente.nl/tnw/im/people/staff/bouwmeester/
E-Mail: h.j.m.bouwmeester@tnw.utwente.nl
Interests: solid state electrochemistry; solid state ionics; mixed conductors; solid electrolytes; ceramic membranes; microporous membranes; gas separation, solid oxide fuel cells; solid acid fuel cells; electrochemical sensors; electrode kinetics; oxygen surface exchange kinetics; thermodynamics; defect chemistry

Prof. Dr. Robert Cattrall
1 La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3086, Australia
2 The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Website: http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/researcher/person14270.html
E-Mail: r.cattrall@unimelb.edu.au
Interests: solvent extraction chemistry; membrane extraction; polymer inclusion membranes; chemical sensors; ion-selective electrodes; optodes

Prof. Dr. Hsueh-Chia Chang
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Center for Micro-fluidics and Medical Diagnostics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
Tel. +1 574 6315697; Fax: +1 574 6318366
Website: http://www.nd.edu/~changlab/
E-Mail: hchang@nd.edu
Interests: ion-selective membranes; electrochemical sensors; desalination; on-chip membrane fabrication; electrokinetics in nanoporous membranes

Prof. Dr. Vicki Chen
UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Tel. +61 2 9385 4813; Fax: +61 2 9385 5966
Website: https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-vicki-chen
E-Mail: v.chen@unsw.edu.au
Interests: hybrid membrane-photocatalytic reactor; hybrid membrane-photocatalytic reactor systems for the degradation of organic contaminants in water and wastewater; formation of novel isoporous membranes from star polymers; membrane fouling and cleaning; hybrid processes for the removal of natural organic matter; hollow fiber/module design; visualization and modelling of flow distribution in hollow fiber modules and cross-flow membrane modules

Prof. Dr. Tai-Shung Chung
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, 119260, Singapore
Tel. +65 6516 6645; Fax: +65 6779 1936
Website: http://www.chbe.nus.edu.sg/membrane/
E-Mail: chencts@nus.edu.sg
Interests: membranes for water reuse; desalination; gas separation; biofuel separation; energy development and CO2 capture

Prof. Dr. Dionysios (Dion) Demetriou Dionysiou
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0012, USA
Tel. +1 513 5560724; Fax: +1 513 5564162
Website: http://www.eng.uc.edu/dept_cee/people/faculty/dionysiou/
E-Mail: dionysios.d.dionysiou@uc.edu
Interests: advanced oxidation technologies and chemical oxidation for water treatment; drinking water treatment and purification; environmental nanotechnology; transition-metal oxidation and reverse electron transfer reactions; the use of ionic liquids in environmental applications; destruction of biological toxins in water; physicochemical phenomena on particle-water interfaces

Prof. Dr. Mikel Duke
Institute of Sustainability and Innovation, Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria 8001, Australia
Tel. +61 399 197682; Fax: +61 399 197696
Website: http://www.vu.edu.au/about-vu/our-people/mikel-duke
E-Mail: mikel.duke@vu.edu.au
Interests: desalination; water treatment; gas separation; membrane distillation; ceramic membranes; zeolites; silica; nanocomposite materials; microbiology; membrane bioreactor; dairy processing; membrane recycling; molecular scale and process modelling

Dr. Steven J. Duranceau
Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida, P.O. Box 162450, Orlando, FL 32816-2450, USA
Tel. +1 407 8231440; Fax: +1 407 8233315
Website: http://cece.ucf.edu/people/sduranceau/
E-Mail: sdurance@mail.ucf.edu
Interests: water quality chemistry; physico-chemical and microbiological processes (aeration and oxidation, membranes, activated carbon, ion-exchange, disinfection, stabilization, corrosion control, distribution system biofilms); desalination process operation troubleshooting and analysis; water distribution system infrastructure; blending of alternative water supplies

Prof. Dr. Isabel C. Escobar
Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606-3390, USA
Tel. +1 419 5308267; Fax: +1 419 5308086
Website: http://www.che.utoledo.edu/escobar.htm
E-Mail: isabel.escobar@utoledo.edu
Interests: membranes for water treatment; desalination; membranes for water reuse; fouling, biofouling; functionalization; membrane formation

Prof. Dr. Eric Favre
Laboratoire Réactions et Génie des Procédés, ENSIC, 1 rue Grandville, BP 20451, 54001 Nancy Cedex, France
Tel. +33 383 175190; Fax: +33 383 322975
E-Mail: eric.favre@ensic.inpl-nancy.fr
Interests: polymeric membrane materials; pervaporation; gas separation processes; membrane contactors; design and modelling of membrane processes
Contribution: Special Issue: Membrane Processes and Energy

Prof. Dr. Clàudia Fontàs
The University of Girona, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
Tel. +32 972 418 271; Fax: +34 972 418 150
Website: http://tnt.udg.edu/scripts/depQuimica/paginaweb.asp?codi=PA03
E-Mail: claudia.fontas@udg.edu
Interests: development of separation and preconcentration techniques for metals and organic compounds; environmental analysis; supported liquid membranes; polymer inclusion membranes; platinum group metals

Dr. Annarosa Gugliuzza
Institute on Membrane Technology (ITM-CNR), 87030 Rende (CS), Italy
Tel. +39 984 492026; Fax: +39 984 402103
E-Mail: a.gugliuzza@itm.cnr.it
Interests: high-defihigh-definition polymeric nanostructured and nanocomposite membranes; greener tailoring nanotechnologies; intelligent membranes; membrane preparation/characterization/phase inversion; surface/transport properties; free-standing membranes for contactors, reactors, sensing devices, textile, packaging and gas separation purposes; polymers and materials Contribution: Special Issue: Responsive Polymer Membranes nition polymeric nanostructured and nanocomposite membranes; greener tailoring nanotechnologies; intelligent membranes; membrane preparation/characterization/phase inversion; surface/transport properties; free-standing membranes for contactors, reactors, sensing devices, textile, packaging and gas separation purposes; polymers and materials
Contribution: Special Issue: Responsive Polymer Membranes

Prof. Dr. Benjamin S. Hsiao
Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400, USA
Tel. +1 631 632 7793; Fax: +1 631 632 6518
Website: http://www.chem.stonybrook.edu/faculty/hsiao.shtml
E-Mail: bhsiao@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Interests: polymers; polymer crystallization; polymer nanocomposites; synchrotron x-ray scattering and diffraction technology development; absorbable polymers for medical applications; drug delivery and tissue engineering; breakthrough nanofibrous membrane technology for water purification
Contribution: Special Issue: Membranes for Health and Environmental Applications

Dr. Johannes C. Jansen
Institute on Membrane Technology, 87030 Rende (CS), Italy
Tel. +39 984 492031; Fax: +39 984 402103
Website: http://www.itm.cnr.it/index.php/en/staff-2/2-non-categorizzato/76-johannes-c-jansenen
E-Mail: jc.jansen@itm.cnr.it
Interests: polymeric membranes; phase inversion techniques; membrane characterization; principles of gas and vapour transport; gas separation; free volume; polymer chemistry and polymer properties

Dr. Jega Veeriah Jegatheesan
School of Engineering, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds Campus, Geelong, VIC 3216, Australia
Tel. +61 3 5227 3403; Fax: +61 3 5227 2840
Website: http://www.deakin.edu.au/sebe/eng/about/staff-profiles/display/index.php?username=jega
E-Mail: jega.j@deakin.edu.au
Interests: applications of high and low pressure membranes in industrial processes; mathematical modelling of fouling of membranes; membrane bioreactors for water reuse and the removal of persistent organic pollutants; forward osmosis and resource recovery

Prof. Dr. Simon Judd
Sustainable Systems Department, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, MK43 0AL, UK
Tel. +44 123 4758310
Website: http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/sas/aboutus/staff/judds.html
E-Mail: s.j.judd@cranfield.ac.uk
Interests: potable water; wastewater; membrane bioreactors

Prof. Dr. Boguslaw Kruczek
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada
Tel. +1 613 562 5800; Fax: +1 613 562 5172
Website: http://www.engineering.uottawa.ca/en/directory/view/boguslaw_kruczek/
E-Mail: bkruczek@uottawa.ca
Interests: gas separation; nanocomposite membranes; zeolite membranes; membrane characterization systems; time lag methods; membrane transport; transport phenomena in membrane characterization
Contribution: Special Issue: Nanocomposite Membranes

Prof. Dr. Tahar Laoui
Department of Mechanical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), 31261 Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Tel. +966 38601379; Fax: +966 38602949
Website: http://www2.kfupm.edu.sa/me/tlaoui.html
E-Mail: tlaoui@kfupm.edu.sa
Interests: materials engineering; ceramic membranes synthesis; multi-layer gradient porous membranes; alumina/zirconia substrates; zeolites active layer; sol-gel layer deposition; polymeric membranes; nanocomposite membranes; water treatment and desalination; heavy metal removal; membranes testing; membranes characterization

Prof. Dr. Michiaki Matsumoto
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science; Doshisha University; Kyotanabe; Kyoto 610-0321, Japan
Tel. +81 0774 656655; Fax: +81 0774 656655
Website: http://kenkyudb.doshisha.ac.jp/rd/search/researcher/194002/index-e.html
E-Mail: mmatsumo@mail.doshisha.ac.jp
Interests: bioreaction engineering; separation technology; extraction; membrane separation
Contribution: Special Issue: Liquid Membranes

Prof. Dr. Takeshi Matsuura
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
Tel. +1 613 5625800, ext.: 8852; Fax: +1 613 5625172
Website: http://by.genie.uottawa.ca/~matsuura/matsuura.htm
E-Mail: matsuura@eng.uottawa.ca
Interests: synthetic membrane material; synthetic membrane preparation; membrane transport; membrane separation processes

Prof. Dr. Hideto Matsuyama
Center for Membrane and Film Technology, Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Kobe University, Rokkodai, Nada-ku, Kobe 657-8501, Japan
Tel. +81 78802 6180; Fax: +81 78802 6180
Website: http://www2.kobe-u.ac.jp/~matuyama/cx14HP/index_j.html
E-Mail: matuyama@kobe-u.ac.jp
Interests: membrane formation; membrane fouling; control of porous structure; MF/UF membrane; RO/NF membrane; CO2 separation; facilitated transport membrane

Prof. Dr. Yoshiko Miura
Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
Tel. +81 92 802 2749; Fax: +81 92 802 2800
Website: http://www.chem-eng.kyushu-u.ac.jp/lab9/index_e.html
E-Mail: miuray@chem-eng.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Interests: branched polymer; glycopolymer; biopolymer; infection disease

Prof. Dr. Klaus Müllen
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, D-55128 Mainz, Germany
Tel. +49 6131 379 151; Fax: +49 6131 379 350
Website: http://www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/groups/muellen/
E-Mail: muellen@mpip-mainz.mpg.de
Interests: new polymer-forming reactions including methods of organometallic chemistry; multi-dimensional polymers with complex shape-persistent architectures; functional polymeric networks, in particular for catalytic purposes; dyes and laser writing into polymers; chemistry and physics of single molecules; molecular materials with liquid crystalline properties for electronic and optoelectronic devices; materials for lithium or hydrogen storage; biosynthetic hybrids; nanocomposites
Contribution: In other journals:
Special Issue: New Polymer Synthesis Reactions

Dr. Morten S. Nielsen
Institut for Medicinsk Biokemi, Ole Worms Allé, Bygn. 170, Universitetsparken, 8000 Århus C, Denmark
Tel. +45 894 22860; Fax: +45 861 31160
E-Mail: mn@biokemi.au.dk
Interests: receptors; endocytosis; intracellular trafficking; lipoprotein; lipase

Prof. Dr. Kitty Nijmeijer
Membrane Technology Group, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 53 4894185; Fax: +31 53 4894611
Website: http://mtg.tnw.utwente.nl/people/mst/nijmeijer/
E-Mail: d.c.nijmeijer@utwente.nl
Interests: water purification; membrane bioreactors; waste water treatment; salinity gradient power; fuel cells; energy storage systems; biorefinery; CO2 capture; Olefin/Paraffin separation; dehydration of streams; organic solvent separation; hydrogen production

Prof. Dr. Arian Nijmeijer
Inorganic Membranes, University of Twente, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 6 55 123390; Fax: +31 20 630 3964
Website: http://www.utwente.nl/tnw/im/people/staff/nijmeijer/nijmeijer_cv.docx/
E-Mail: a.nijmeijer@utwente.nl
Interests: ceramic membranes; microporous membranes; gas separation; membrane reactors; sol-gel chemistry; ceramic processing; carbon capture; solvent resistant nanofiltration; catalytic membranes; metal membranes

Prof. Dr. Leonardo Palmisano
Dipartimento di Energia, dell'Informazione e Modelli Matematici (DEIM), Università di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Tel. +39 91 23863746; Fax: +39 91 7025020
Website: http://www.dicpm.unipa.it/biografia.asp?idperson=15
E-Mail: leonardo.palmisano@unipa.it
Interests: heterogeneous photocatalysis; photocatalytic syntheses; photocatalytic membranes; advanced oxidation technologies

Prof. Dr. Klaus Rätzke
Technische Fakultät der Universität Kiel, Institut für Materialwissenschaft, Materialverbunde, Kaiserstr., D-24143 Kiel, Germany
Tel. +49 431 8806227; Fax: +49 431 8806229
Website: http://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/~kr/
E-Mail: kr@tf.uni-kiel.de
Interests: polymeric membranes; gas separation; pervoration; free volume; transport through membranes; polymer nanocomposite membranes; characterization of polymer membranes

Prof. Dr. Mohamed Khayet Souhaimi
Department of Applied Physics I, Faculty of Physics, University Complutense of Madrid, Avda. Complutense s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain
Tel. +34 91 394 5185; Fax: +34 91 394 5191
Website: http://www.ucm.es
E-Mail: khayetm@fis.ucm.es
Interests: polymeric membrane modification; polymeric membrane processes and theoretical models; polymeric nano-fibers and hollow fibers; polymer nanocomposites; phase separation; fabrication, modification and characterization of polymeric membranes for liquid and gas separations; flat-sheet membranes; hollow-fiber membranes; nano-fiber membranes; composite membranes; membrane processes: ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, reverse osmosis, membrane distillation, pervaporation, gas separation, etc.; different membrane characterization techniques (SEM, AFM, etc.)

Prof. Dr. David C. Stuckey
Biochemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Tel. +44 207 5945591
Website: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/d.stuckey
E-Mail: d.stuckey@imperial.ac.uk
Interests: bioreactor design; surfactant enhanced solvent extraction and protein precipitation; downstream separation techniques

Prof. Dr. Shiro Suetsugu
Laboratory of Membrane and Cytoskeleton Dynamics, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0032, Japan
Tel. +81-3-5841-7954; Fax: +81-3-5841-7862
Website: http://www.iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp/suetsugu/e/Welcome.html
E-Mail: suetsugu@iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Interests: cellular membrane curvatures; cellular membrane structures; protein-lipid interactions; lipid signaling in cells; membrane morphology
Contribution: Special Issue: Biological Membrane Morphogenesis

Prof. Dr. Toshinori Tsuru
Department of Chemical Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8527, Japan
Tel. +49 4152 872420; Fax: +49 4152 872444
Website: http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/tom/lab/members/tsuru/index-e.html
E-Mail: tsuru@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Interests: inorganic membranes; inorganic/ organic hybrid membranes; nano/subnano-porous membranes for gas; PV, RO/NF; membrane reactor; transport mechanism through nano/subnano-porous membranes

Prof. Dr. Tongwen Xu
CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Lab of Functional Membranes, School of Chemistry and Material Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
Website: http://membrane.ustc.edu.cn/twxu/twxu.htm
E-Mail: twxu@ustc.edu.cn
Interests: ion exchange membrane; bipolar membrane; electrodialysis; fuel cells

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