Layer-by-Layer Nanofilms: Invention, Innovation, and Evolution
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Thin Films".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 3332
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The nanoporous polymer membrane can be applied in a variety of fields, such as gas separation, water treatment, electrolytes and separators in batteries, and ion selective membranes. Particularly, nanoporous cellulose acetate membranes can be easily prepared by a special method utilizing both water-pressure and Cu metal salts.
The separation of olefin/paraffin gas mixtures such as propylene/propane is an important process in the petrochemical industry. To replace the previous distillation process, the facilitated transport membranes utilize both types of Fickian transport and carriers have become interested in this method due to its simple process.
Since the safety of separators in batteries has become very important in recent years, there is a great interest in cellulose acetate materials to have excellent thermal stability and chemical stability. Water pressure and Cd salts were used for the preparation of porous cellulose acetate, and the porosity was easily controlled by the amount of salt and strength of water-pressure.
In particular, we invite papers that deal with, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Nanoporous polymer membrane
- Facilitated olefin transport
- Nanoporous cellulose acetate
- Layer-by-layer assembly
- Multilayer structure
Prof. Jinkee Hong
Guest Editor
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