Special Issue "Women’s Special Issue Series: Membrane Materials and Applications"

A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2023 | Viewed by 2957

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Prof. Dr. Isabel C. Escobar
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Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
Interests: developing and/or improving polymeric membrane materials for water treatment and water reuse applications
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Dear Colleagues,

Women have been underrepresented as first, last, and corresponding authors in prominent authorship positions. Furthermore, according to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, only 30% of the world's scientific researchers identify as female. Attention should be drawn to the continued imbalance in female representation until parity can be reached. Membranes is proud to present our "Women's Special Issue Series: Membrane Materials and Applications", aimed at celebrating the achievements of women in membrane science and technology. The scope of Special Issue includes all aspects of topics in membrane material and application science.

Prof. Dr. Isabel C. Escobar
Guest Editor

Women’s Special Issue Series

This Special Issue is part of Membranes's Women’s Special Issue Series, hosted by women editors for women researchers. The Series advocates the advancement of women in science. We invite contributions to the Special Issue whose lead authors identify as women. The submission of articles with all-women authorship is especially encouraged. However, we do welcome articles from all authors, irrespective of gender.

The Membranes editorial office is also proud to announce one award "Membranes 2023 Early Career-Women Award" in the journal to reward the achievements of young female scientist in membrane science and technology.

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Membranes is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

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Design Strategies for Forward Osmosis Membrane Substrates with Low Structural Parameters—A Review
Membranes 2023, 13(1), 73; https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes13010073 - 07 Jan 2023
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This article reviews the many innovative strategies that have been developed to specifically design the support layers of forward osmosis (FO) membranes. Forward osmosis (FO) is one of the most viable separation technologies to treat hypersaline wastewater, but its successful deployment requires the [...] Read more.
This article reviews the many innovative strategies that have been developed to specifically design the support layers of forward osmosis (FO) membranes. Forward osmosis (FO) is one of the most viable separation technologies to treat hypersaline wastewater, but its successful deployment requires the development of new membrane materials beyond existing desalination membranes. Specifically, designing the FO membrane support layers requires new engineering techniques to minimize the internal concentration polarization (ICP) effects encountered in cases of FO. In this paper, we have reviewed several such techniques developed by different research groups and summarized the membrane transport properties corresponding to each approach. An important transport parameter that helps to compare the various approaches is the so-called structural parameter (S-value); a low S-value typically corresponds to low ICP. Strategies such as electrospinning, solvent casting, and hollow fiber spinning, have been developed by prior researchers—all of them aimed at lowering this S-value. We also reviewed the quantitative methods described in the literature, to evaluate the separation properties of FO membranes. Lastly, we have highlighted some key research gaps, and provided suggestions for potential strategies that researchers could adopt to enable easy comparison of FO membranes. Full article
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