Carbon Nanostructures and Their Crucial Role in Membrane Science
A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375). This special issue belongs to the section "Membrane Analysis and Characterization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 226
Special Issue Editors
Interests: thin film composite membranes; gas transport; microporosity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The discovery of carbon nanostructures, such as fullerene, graphene, and carbon nanotubes, represents our rising progress in synthesizing and exploiting nanomaterials that demonstrate the growing portfolio of nanostructures and nanofabrication techniques, which are promising to revolutionise engineering in the future. Membrane separation technology is one of the most important emerging applications of these nanostructured materials.
From diamond hard structures to the soft nature of graphite, a wide variety of carbon structures, including graphene, graphene oxide, carbon nanotube, fullerene (in a great variety of sizes, with different numbers of carbon atoms), coal, and soot (amorphous carbon), as well as disordered carbons family of glassy carbons, activated carbons, and carbon fibres, have already been utilized in carbon membranes as well as composite/mixed matrix membranes.
In the latter, dramatic enhancements in property, even at low loadings, have been reported. The chemical functionalisation, wrapping, decorating, tailoring, coupling, and other modifications of these materials can improve composite membrane characteristics and their large-scale production. Due to the great variety of specifications exhibited by carbon nanostructures, they may simultaneously solve wide ranges of membrane engineering challenges at once.
Considering the growing interest in sustainability and the circular economy, it is in our best interest to extend the lifecycle of membrane materials. This Special Issue acts as a knowledge platform gathering all recent frontiers in the broad scope of carbon nanostructures roles in membrane science, including synthesis, characterization, utilization, modelling, molecular dynamics simulations, machine learning, etc. Articles, case studies, reviews, and communications are welcome and held in high regard.
Dr. Morteza Asghari
Guest Editor
Dr. Iman Salahshoori
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- carbon nanostructures
- composite/mixed matrix membranes
- circular economy
- nanofabrication techniques
- molecular dynamics simulations
- machine learning
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