Membranes Awards

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Membranes will be awarding two Travel Awards for postdoctoral researchers and PhD students to attend a conference in 2019. Each award will consist of 800 CHF (Swiss Francs). The nominations and applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars from the Membranes Editorial Board, chaired by the Editor-in-Chief of Membranes, Prof. Dr. Spas D. Kolev.

Candidate Requirements:

–– PhD students or postdoctoral researchers in the membrane field.
–– Will attend an international conference in 2019 (oral presentation or poster).

Required Application Documents:

–– The applicant’s oral or poster abstract for the conference and the conference information (conference name, website, date and location)
–– CV and a list of publications
–– Justification letter describing the focus of their research (max. 500 words)
–– Recommendation letter from the applicants’ supervisors or PIs (principal investigators). The supervisors or PIs should sign and confirm that the applicant fulfills all requirements.

Please send your applications online at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/membranes/awards by 19 November 2018. The winner will be announced on the Membranes website in December 2018.

Membranes is an international peer-reviewed open access journal providing an advanced forum for membrane science and technology, and is published quarterly online by MDPI. It has been covered in important databases, such as Chemical Abstracts, SciFinder (CAS), Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI—Web of Science), Ei Compendex, Scopus (CiteScore 2017: 2.69) and other databases.

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