Gas Transport across Membranes—Discoveries, Prospects and Innovations

Dear Colleagues,

Gas transport membrane technology has attracted increasing interest in recent years and has significantly contributed to many important applications relating to our daily life and industrial implementations, providing a clean route with facile operation and flexibility of design, which reduces production costs. There is no doubt that gas transport membranes will play a vital role in various chemical-, energy-, and environment-related processes.

This Special Issue of the journal Membranes on “Gas Transport across Membranes—Discoveries, Prospects and Innovations” seeks contributions to assess the state-of-the-art technologies, latest discoveries and future opportunities of gas transport membranes. The scope of this Special Issue is gas transport via any kind of membrane technology or a combination of other technologies with membrane process. Topics include, but are not limited to, membranes for H₂ production, membranes for gas separation (O₂, H₂, CO₂, etc.), membranes for CO₂ conversion, natural gas purification, membrane reactors for the production of chemicals, hydrocarbon separation in the petrochemical industry, cathode development for solid oxide fuel cells, protonic ceramic fuel cells, solar-driven evaporation process, electrolyzer cells for power-to-X technologies, separation process modeling and fundamental mechanism understanding, new material development, gas pollutant treatment, new fabrication techniques, industrial exploitation, and new technologies integrated with gas transport membranes. We welcome various original articles, perspectives and reviews dealing with gas transport membrane technology.

We look forward to receiving your contributions. 

Dr. Guoxing Chen
Dr. XiaoYu Wu
Prof. Dr. Anke Weidenkaff
Guest Editors

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• membrane reactors
• gas cleaning
• modeling of separation process
• structure–property–performance relationships
• natural gas purification
• membrane characterization
• energy storage and resource recovery applications
• new processes involving gas transport membranes
• gas pollutant treatment
• CO₂, O₂ and H₂ separation
• fabrication techniques
• membrane modification
• electrolyzer cells for power-to-X technologies
• new membrane materials
• cathode development for solid oxide fuel cells
• multifunction membrane
• hollow fiber
• metal–organic frameworks