Application of Membrane-Based Modern Solutions in Separation Techniques for the Recovery of Metal Ions and Critical Resources

Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays, membrane techniques are used not only as industrial solutions for water or wastewater treatment but also as potential technologies for the separation liquid mixtures and recovery of critical metals and chemical compounds from waste in a circular economy. Resources such as metals, REEs (rare earth elements), salts, fertilizers, bio compounds, and energy, etc., can be recovered from various wastes using membrane technologies. The aim of this Special Issue, entitled "Application of Membrane-Based Modern Solutions in Separation Techniques for the Recovery of Metal Ions and Critical Resources", is to promote membrane technologies as innovative, environmentally friendly, and inexpensive technologies for liquid mixture separation, water treatment, wastewater treatment, and multi-resource recovery. Therefore, the scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, new approaches in membrane design and synthesis, novel membrane materials, mass transport and adsorption phenomena/mechanisms, mathematical modeling, modules and membrane reactors design, novel applications, and industrial exploitation of membrane techniques in water and wastewater treatment, biomedical and tissue engineering, drug delivery, recovery of all kinds of significant critical resources from industrial and medical wastes, etc. Authors are welcome to submit original research papers, communications, and review articles. We are looking forward to your contribution to this Special Issue.

Dr. Aleksandra Rybak
Dr. Aurelia Rybak
Guest Editors

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