Development of Functionalized Porous Materials for Adsorption and Separations
A special issue of Separations (ISSN 2297-8739). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials in Separation Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 December 2025) | Viewed by 996
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ion-exchange; porous materials; solvent extraction; adsorption; microporous polymers; leaching; waste valorisation; water purification; heavy metals; precious metals; critical minerals
Interests: environmental engineering; adsorption; activated carbon; production AC; air pollution; water treatment; water purification; heavy metals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The selective separation, purification and recovery of many types of chemical species is imperitive to the principles of sustainability and circular economy. Adsorption technology is, in many ways, the ideal tool to accelerate this research need: it is inherrently low-energy, produces minimal secondary waste-streams and furthermore contributes to the remediation of environment and industrial effluent.
Many interesting and exciting new porous materials have been reported in recent years, some of which seem to offer fundamental advantages over the state-of-the-art, in terms of performance and sustainability. Still, the ‘bedrock’ technologies of polymeric ion-exchange resins and inorganic zeolites are overwhelmingly favoured in the design and development of chemical separation processes. Only by gaining a deeper understanding of the chemical interactions between sorbent and sorbate, in porous materials, can we truly harnass the power of these new technologies.
Submissions (original research and review articles) are invited for this special issue, which showcase the capabilities of porous materials, of all categories, to address the need for new and enhanced chemical separations via adsorption and ion-exchange. Reports of novel materials, with accompanying characterisation, are encouraged. However, contributions on use of off-the-shelf technologies for new applications, plus method development and production process infensification for existing materials are also highly welcome, as are articles focussing on life-cycle and technicoeconomic aspects of adsorbent use.
Dr. Thomas J. Robshaw
Dr. Ewa Szatyłowicz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ion-exchange
- adsorption
- porous materials
- chemical separation
- water treatment
- hydrometallurgy
- gas capture
- resource recovery
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