Membranes Awards

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Membranes, I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 Membranes Travel Awards: Gaetan Blandin (Post-doctoral fellow at the University of Girona, Spain) and Anna Siekierka (Ph.D. student at the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland). Each Awardee will receive 800 Swiss Francs to attend an international conference in 2019.

Dr. Gaetan Blandin’s research focuses on the development of osmotic membrane bioreactors for water recycling. He will present his research “Forward osmosis for wastewater concentration: Lab and pilot case studies” at the 9th IWA Membrane Technology Conference & Exhibition for Water and Wastewater Treatment and Reuse, which will be held on 23–27 June 2019 in Toulouse, France.

Ms. Anna Siekierka’s research focuses on the use of the membraneassembly electrochemical technology for selective removal of lithium salts from aqueous solutions. She will present her research “The influence of anion-exchange membranes for the adsorption capacity of lithium ions and their energetic factors during hybrid capacitive deionization” at the VI PVVPGSMD 2019, which will be held on 14–17 May 2019 in Toruń, Poland.

It was a difficult decision, given the high-quality applications for the awards. On behalf of the award committee, I would like to thank all applicants and to congratulate Dr. Gaetan Blandin and Ms. Anna Siekierka for their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Spas D. Kolev
Editor-in-Chief
The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the winner of the Membranes Travel Award for 2018:

The recipient of the Travel Award is Ms. Edyta Rynkowska, a PhD student at the Faculty of Chemistry of Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland.

Ms. Edyta Rynkowska’s main research interests focus on separation membrane materials containing polymerizable and reactive ionic liquids.

On behalf of the Membranes team, I would like to congratulate Ms. Edyta Rynkowska for her research achievements!

Prof. Dr. Spas D. Kolev
Editor-in-Chief
The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Membranes established a Best Paper Award in order to afford recognition to the authors of its best published articles this year. Nominations were selected by the Editorial Office of Membranes from papers published in 2015–2016, with a selection process based on the number of citations and downloads from the website. The selection committee was chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Spas D. Kolev, and supported by Prof. Dr. Dionysios (Dion) Demetriou Dionysiou, Prof. Dr. Terry Hébert, Prof. Dr. Arwyn Tomos Jones, Prof. Dr. Annarosa Gugliuzza, Prof. Dr. Chu Yang Tang and Prof. Dr. Jega Veeriah Jegatheesan. Each examined a paper and expressed their preferences in the ranking of the “Membranes Best Paper Award” 2017.

We are pleased to announce the top three winners of the Best Paper Award of Membranes for 2017 are:

Original Research Article Award:

1st Prize

Asymmetric Lipid Membranes: Towards More Realistic Model Systems
Drew Marquardt, Barbara Geier and Georg Pabst
Membranes 2015, 5(2), 180–196; doi:10.3390/membranes5020180
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0375/5/2/180

2nd Prize

Selectivity of Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Membranes
Antonino S. Aricò, David Sebastian, Michael Schuster, Bernd Bauer, Claudia D’Urso, Francesco Lufrano and Vincenzo Baglio
Membranes 2015, 5(4), 793–809; doi:10.3390/membranes5040793
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0375/5/4/793

3rd Prize

Hollow Fiber Membrane Dehumidification Devices for Air Conditioning System
Baiwang Zhao, Na Peng, Canzeng Liang, Wai Fen Yong and Tai-Shung Chung
Membranes 2015, 5(4), 722–738; doi:10.3390/membranes5040722
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0375/5/4/722

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the winner of the Membranes Travel Award for 2017:

The Travel Award has been granted to Dr. Ludovic Dumee, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Frontier Materials, at Deakin Univeristy, Waurn Ponds, Victoria, Australia.

Dr. Ludovic Dumee’s main research interests focus on the coalescence of metal and metal oxide nano-particles to form nano-porous metal frameworks with enhanced plasmonic, catalytic and photo-catalytic properties for application in wastewater treatment and mixed solvent separation.

On behalf of the Membranes team, I would like to congratulate Dr. Ludovic Dumee for all his achievements!

Prof. Dr. Spas D. Kolev
Editor-in-Chief
The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia