Recent Membrane Research and Development in Korea

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, carbon neutrality has become a major issue around the world related to global climate change. Membrane technology is considered particularly promising, with the potential to offer solutions this issue, and it is used in a broad range of applications. For instance, membranes can contribute to solving water shortage and environmental problems, as well as achieving energy efficiency for industrial processes, resource recovery and reuse, and energy generation. Most membrane processes are pressure-driven, without a phase change of the target compounds, and require much less energy consumption than alternate separation processes. From this point of view, membranes and membrane processes have been extensively studied, including highly efficient membrane processes with a large surface area, advanced membrane fabrication methods with a controllable capability to separate molecularly similar compounds, membrane structure control for microscopic transport phenomena, reduction in energy consumption, and minimization of environmental impacts. A lot of this research has taken place in Korea, especially in recent decades.

Despite this great potential, however, further development is still needed in the field of membranes to achieve successful membrane applications in various fields (e.g., environmental and energy issue, petroleum and fine chemical industry, bioindustry, and healthcare industry). The aim of this Special Issue is to introduce recent membrane research and development related to carbon neutrality in Korea. Both research and review papers on membrane technology developed in Korea are welcome.

Dr. Hosik Park
Prof. Dr. Kew-Ho Lee
Guest Editors

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