Advanced Functional Membrane Materials: Fabrication and Applications
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 20
Special Issue Editor
Interests: membrane science and technology; membrane synthesis
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Dear Colleagues,
Advanced functional membranes have attracted the attention of chemical scientists and engineers around the world, owing to their unparalleled advantages, such as exceptional selectivity, permeability, and tunable physicochemical properties. Various types of membrane materials including polymers, metal oxides, carbon-based substances (e.g., CNTs, GO), MOFs, COFs, and HOFs, are currently intensively studied. Innovations in synthesis techniques could enable the scalable production of membranes with hierarchical structures. Furthermore, machine learning and computational modeling may accelerate the discovery of novel materials with tailored properties.
The present Special Issue of Molecules aims to present the latest original advances in advanced functional membrane materials, which show amazing performance in broad fields, such gas separation (e.g., carbon capture, natural gas purification, alkene/alkane separation), pervaporation (biofuel production, solvent dehydration), battery separators (lithium-ion, solid-state batteries), biomedical uses (hemodialysis, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation), and environmental applications (water treatment, pollution remediation). I invite you to submit an inspiring manuscript for this Special Issue. Original articles and reviews are welcome.
Dr. Heng Mao
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- functional membrane material
- nanochemistry
- polymeric synthesis
- molecular design
- synthesis method
- material processing
- catalysis and separation
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