New Challenges in Polymer Membranes for Water Treatment
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2025) | Viewed by 401
Special Issue Editors
Interests: polymer synthesis; characterization and physics; self-assembly of hierarchical soft matter; semiconducting polymers; polymeric membranes; in situ reaction kinetics and transport monitoring
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: water purification; polymeric membranes; biomimetic membranes; polymer chemistry; desalination/reverse osmosis; resource recovery
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Water is a critical resource for life and societal function. Access to water is essential, as are the technologies used for treating various water sources. While many water treatments have been developed to achieve desired water quality, there remains significant challenges and opportunities for improving the energy efficiency of water treatment processes, and for the treatment of non-traditional water sources and harvesting other resources from both traditional and non-traditional water sources.
This Special Issue aims to feature new challenges, recent developments, and advances for all aspects of water treatment using polymer membranes, including membrane processes, new membrane materials and manufacturing processes, membrane reuse/recycling, etc.
Dr. Bryan Beckingham
Dr. Cassandra Porter
Dr. Michael Howard
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- polymer membranes
- water treatment
- membrane fabrication
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