Porous Polymers and Polymeric Membranes

Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue “Porous Polymers and Polymeric Membranes” is focused on the challenging subject of modern science concerning the controlled preparation of porous polymeric materials with the desired morphology and targeted performance. This issue presents a broad scope of general strategies allowing the preparation of porous polymeric materials and membranes and the correlation between the preparation conditions and resultant structure of polymeric materials at different levels (from nano to macro). This subject invites the use of diverse physicochemical methods for the characterization of the porous materials (pore size, pore size distribution, morphology of pores, stability, etc.) and their performance as efficient membranes for various purposes. This issue also addresses the use of diverse additives incorporated into porous membrane matrixes for the preparation of high-performance membrane materials with desired functional properties, including selectivity, gas permeability, controlled hydrophilic/hydrophobic balance, pervaporation, etc.

This Special Issue on “Porous Polymers and Polymeric Membranes” is for researchers and technologists interested in all aspects of membrane science, technology, and applications of membrane materials for reverse osmosis, ultrafiltration, pervaporation, catalysis, gas and liquid separation, etc. Both original research articles and reviews about membrane science and preparation of porous and functional membrane materials as well as the benefits of membrane materials in different applications are welcomed. Specific topics of interests include:

• Preparation of porous polymeric materials.
• Structure and morphology of polymeric membrane materials.
• Correlation between the preparation and structure of membrane materials.
• Characterization of membrane materials by diverse physicochemical methods (AFM, SEM, TEM, DSC, X-ray analysis, permporometry, EPR, FESEM, NMR, etc.).
• Performance of membrane materials (gas permeability, liquid permeability, selectivity, stability, ecological aspects, etc.).
• Preparation of composite/nanocomposite membrane materials with functional additives and their characterization.
• Membrane processes.
• Computational studies to describe transport through porous polymeric membranes.
• Application of porous membrane materials (food packing, breathable materials, selective membranes, catalytic membranes, reverse osmosis, ultrafiltration, pervaporation, photoactive materials, sensors, etc.).

Dr. Olga Arzhakova
Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Beltsios
Guest Editors

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