2026 March - 36 articles
The separation of substances from one another, such as distillation, extraction, absorption, crystallization, and drying, comprises a main sector of the industry engineering field and has substantial potential to play an increasingly important role i...
Electromembrane processes are a separate class of membrane methods that utilize ion transport across the ion exchange membranes [...]
The development of sustainable ceramic membranes remains a major challenge for advanced wastewater treatment, particularly regarding the trade-off between mechanical durability and the removal of dissolved micropollutants. While bentonite membranes o...
Several studies have investigated counterflow and concurrent flow in channels separated by a membrane to simulate mass transfer through membranes; however, few of them have used computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The current study aimed to numerical...
This Special Issue of Membranes celebrates the scientific achievements, international vision, and collaborative spirit of Professor Giulio C [...]
The Special Issue entitled “Fabrication, Characterization and Application of Organic/Inorganic Film Membranes and Advanced Materials (Volume III)” continues the themes of the previous Special Issue entitled “Fabrication, Characteriz...
The shipping sector is responsible for a considerable share of global CO2 emissions and is under pressure to reduce emissions and adopt carbon-neutral fuels. Among the proposed alternatives, methanol produced from green hydrogen and biogenic CO2 repr...
The Special Issue ‘Fabrication, Characterization and Application of Organic/Inorganic Film Membranes and Advanced Materials (Volume II)’ includes 13 articles covering various aspects of the formation and application of organic and inorgan...
Forward osmosis (FO) membranes face challenges in balancing high water permeability, low reverse salt flux (RSF), and mechanical durability. Although nanopores in graphene have great theoretical potential, the existing methods make it difficult to in...
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Globally, freshwater scarcity is driving the urgent demand for advanced and new desalination technologies to overcome the shortage of clean water. Reverse osmosis (RO) membranes dominate seawater and brackish water treatment but are limited by the pe...
Membrane distillation (MD) was a promising approach for treating highly concentrated ammonia–nitrogen wastewater. However, membrane wetting often limited large-scale application. To address this, we built an anti-wetting layer on a commercial P...
The Hodgkin–Huxley equations have successfully described neuronal excitability for over seventy years, yet their mathematical structure remains empirically justified rather than theoretically explained. Why are gating variables bounded between...
Sphingolipids (SL) are essential structural and bioactive components of cell membranes, remarkably involved in inflammatory signaling and membrane dynamics. Dysregulation of SL metabolism contributes to pathological inflammation and cellular stress....
This paper reviews artificial intelligence (AI) applications in the design and optimization of proton exchange membrane (PEM) materials for hydrogen fuel cells. Clean energy conversion is a substantial benefit of PEM fuel cells, which conventional me...
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Red blood cell (RBC) membrane flickering arises from the interplay between thermal fluctuations, cytoskeletal elasticity, and metabolically driven non-equilibrium processes, making it a sensitive reporter of membrane mechanical state. Here, we introd...
Bipolar Polymer Membranes (BPMs) enable the creation of large, stable pH gradients by driving water dissociation (WD) at the cation/anion junction under reverse bias, a process central to electrodialysis, CO2 capture, and emerging acid–alkaline...
Maintaining a membrane electrical potential of biological cells is a dynamic process, as some cells have a continually changing potential, like pacemaker cells, while other cells may function with large or small changes in the membrane potential. Add...
Ionic liquid (IL) N-methyl-N′-1-(4-t-butylphenylphosphinyl)butylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulphonyl) imide was used for the first time as an ion carrier in membrane systems to selectively transport Au(III), Pt(IV), and Pd(II) ions. Au(III)...
The rapid synthesis of high-performance silicalite-1 membranes was systematically investigated by examining the effects of seed size, solution volume, and reactor configuration on membrane growth, microstructure, and gas separation performance. Silic...
This study employs an integrated modeling approach to elucidate the mechanisms of nitrate ion transport through nanofiltration (NF) and reverse osmosis (RO) membranes. The investigation first applied models from irreversible thermodynamics, specifica...
Stimuli-responsive liposomal membranes have attracted growing interest as dynamic soft materials capable of regulating permeability, fusion, and cargo release in response to external or internal triggers. By incorporating functional molecular or nano...
Membrane lipid remodeling plays a pivotal role in regulating plant growth, reproductive development, and adaptive responses to environmental stress. However, several lipid-modifying enzymes remain uncharacterized in Arabidopsis thaliana. Here, we pro...
The industrial application of modified ion-exchange membranes is limited by complex, discontinuous ex-situ processes. This study introduces an in-situ electro-assembly strategy that enables the direct fabrication of a selective layer within an electr...
Repurposing usage of oil refinery wastewater with retrofitted desalination technology necessitates the optimization of a forward osmosis (FO) technology. Herein, factors such as draw solution concentration (DS-C) and feed and draw solution flow rates...
Analytical models of transdermal drug delivery (TDD) often represent deeper skin layers using ideal sink assumptions or phenomenological interfacial resistances. While mathematically convenient, these approaches obscure the physical role of the dermi...
This work presents a novel, membrane-inspired hybrid framework composed of Ag2Mo3O10·1.8H2O nanowires grown in situ on carbon fiber cloth (CFC) for the continuous and selective recovery of high-value sulfur-containing molecules from organic wa...
Perfluorinated sulfonic acid ionomer (PFSAI) dispersions are widely used for fabrication of ion-conducting membranes and catalyst layers for hydrogen fuel cells. The conformation and concentration of PFSAIs affect the properties of the final product...
The purpose of this study was to assess the suitability of tubular polymeric ultrafiltration membranes for use in a closed-loop water system within a rubber manufacturing plant. This research focused on determining the transport and separation proper...
The increasing demand for clean and safe water across the globe represents one of the most pressing challenges of modern society [...]
Biomembrane transport mechanisms [...]
Membrane technologies comprise a broad range of materials and structural designs tailored for specific separation applications, including gas separation [...]
Biological membranes are the quintessential functional interface of life, where lipid bilayer mechanics, compositional heterogeneity, and dynamic protein interactions converge to govern cellular physiology [...]
Professor Anthony (Tony) Fane needs no introduction within the membrane community [...]
